Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nation's business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for its daring, market-friendly innovations.

I've always been into guitars... we want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John.

Noel Gallagher

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

Anthony Trollope

Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.

Georges Bataille

The less men think, the more they talk.

Charles de Montesquieu

The downside of spiritual education is the buildup of the vanity of 'I know' and the devaluation of people who are 'not spiritual'. Therefore it is important as a foundation to spiritual training and education to learn how consciousness manifests as the ego and its mechanisms.

David R. Hawkins

There's some benefit to being happy in your life. Of looking around and saying, 'This is mine.

Tom Leykis

Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

Molly Ivins

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.Cavendum est ne major poena quam culpa sit; et ne issdem de causis alii plectantur,alii ne appellentur quidem.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, De offici

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?

Dhammapada

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

Pope Francis I

Fake it 'till you make it.

Gayle Forman

My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.

Mac Thornberry