Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.

Curt Siodmak

When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.

Sydney J. Harris

I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages.

Tony Campolo

We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.

David R. Hawkins

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'

LeBron James

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

Elizabeth Taylor

If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

Simon Van Booy

Of three in One and One in three My narrow mind would doubting be Till Beauty, Grace and Kindness met And all at once were Juliet.

Hilaire Belloc

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

Sam Waterston

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.

Barbara Ehrenreich

...I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might approach the mystery of the mind...

Wilder Penfield