Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

John Dewey

As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.

William Salter

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

Christopher Hitchens

Respect the burden.

Napoleon Bonaparte

We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

Alison Lurie

Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.

Mervyn Peake

I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,'

Jewel

The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.

Plato

Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.

Benjamin Franklin

Arguments are to be avoided they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Oscar Wilde

I'm a survivor of life. I try to give the glory to God and appreciate what's happening to me.

Mike Epps

It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.

Michael Bloomberg