Do you really wish to disobey me, Marbas? Do you wish to anger my father?

From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.

Guru Nanak

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

Henry James

The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.

Boris Spassky

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Plato

If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer is automatically self-contradictory: 'Only if I did not know that I was doing so.' To go through the entire experience once more would be banal and Sisyphean even if it did build muscle whereas to wish to be young again and to have the benefit of one's learned and acquired existence is not at all to wish for a repeat performance, or a Groundhog Day. And the mind ought to, but cannot, set some limits to wish-thinking. All right, same but with more money, an even sturdier penis, slightly different parents, a briefer latency period the thing is absurd. I seriously would like to know what it was to be a woman, but like blind Tiresias would also want the option of re-metamorphosing if I wished. How terrible it is that we have so many more desires than opportunities.

Christopher Hitchens

I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

Randy Newman

Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Vera Brittain

When he came back from downtown, he had forgotten to bring his license, his identification, the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later.

Eydie Gorme

I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Yancy Butler