The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

Bill Cosby

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.

Azar Nafisi

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Oscar Wilde

China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.

Ai Weiwei

Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

Garth Stein

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

Spike Lee

Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker

Anonymous

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

Paul Muldoon

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Jim Fox

In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.

Patrick Dempsey

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

David Elkind

There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

Steven Wright