Since when was genius found respectable?

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

Condoleezza Rice

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

J. M. Barrie

Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.

David Hyde Pierce

Sex is a short cut to everything.

Anne Cumming

Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.

Confucius

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

Morgan Freeman

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Sherwood Anderson

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Benjamin Haydon

The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.

Mike Ferguson

I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.

Augusten Burroughs

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

Don King

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Johann von Goethe