The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

Thomas Alva Edison

Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.

Harry Mathews

Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.

Byron Dorgan

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Mal Pancoast

I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married.

Elisabetta Canalis

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Kurt Vonnegut

A philosopher may try to prove the truth of something he believed before he was a philosopher, but even if he succeeds, his belief never regain the untroubled character, and the settled place in his mind, which it had at first.

David Stove

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Helen Rowland

My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.

Kurt Vonnegut

I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why.

Paul Gascoigne