I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.

This marriage is no one's business but our own.

Bobby Darin

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Hubert H. Humphrey

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple Black

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Joseph Conrad

I eat like a vulture. Unfortunately the resemblance doesn't end there.

Groucho Marx

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

Shannon Hale

In 1965, I marched for equality.

Alphonso Jackson

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

Robert Caro

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

As the message drained away Vimes stared at the opposite wall, in which the door now opened, after a cursory knock, to reveal the steward bearing that which is guaranteed to frighten away all nightmares, to wit, a cup of hot tea.** The sound of the gentle rattle of china cup on china saucer drives away all demons, a little-known fact.

Terry Pratchett

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of hap

Thomas Jefferson

I hate art auctions.

Jerry Saltz