The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

George Bernard Shaw

It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had.

Cassandra Clare

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

John Buchan

To succeed in science, you have to avoid dumb people (here I was still following Luria's example). Now that might sound inexcusably flip, but the fact is that you must always turn to people who are brighter than yourself.

James D. Watson

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Franz Liszt

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

Jim Fowler

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Katherine Mansfield

As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.

LL Cool J

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Ernest Hemingway

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.

Barbara Cartland

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

Chief Joseph