I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... what you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure.

C.S. Lewis

We live in a three dimensional plane. Life is on the third planet from the sun not the second. Ain't nobody lying on a piece of paper looking at each other

Eddie Griffin

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

Aldous Huxley

Yesterday I found out what doughnuts are for. You put them ondoughbolts. They hold dough airplanes together. For kids, theymake erector sets out of playdough.

Steven Wright

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

Bruce Springsteen

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

George Herbert

Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.

Holly Black

I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.

Umberto Eco

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

Pablo Casals

Walking is man's best medicine.

Hippocrates

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself: That is not what I meant by freedom -- it is only social progress.

Helene Deutsch

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

Barack Obama