The realist is the man, who having weighed all the visible factors in a given situation and having found that the odds are against him, decides that fighting is useless.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Michel de Montaigne

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

George Steiner

I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.

J. C. Watts

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one

Samuel Johnson

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

Erica Jong

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

John Mason Brown

I live in a crazy time.

Anne Frank

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

Andrew Stanton

Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied.

James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Fa

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

Michelle Obama

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

Carol P. Christ

I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.known for his three-hour speeches, reportedly shortened them to not more than 90 minutes

Fidel Castro