I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

Seamus Heaney

If God were alive today, he would have to be an atheist, because the excrement has hit the air-conditioning big time, big time.

Kurt Vonnegut

But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.

Elton John

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

Babe Ruth

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Sir Winston Churchill

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

Philip Massinger

Love is a banana. First you peel it, and then you roll on the condom.?

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

Orson Scott Card

The meaning of religious truth is hope

Andrei Tarkovsky

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.

William Shakespeare

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

Jimmy Carter