Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

Growing up I had a horrible speech impediment. I stuttered to where I couldn't even talk in class. I couldn't even give one-word answers because I would stutter, which in turn made me mad. I fought a lot and I stayed in trouble a lot. I never had someone come in and say, 'We want to have you see a speech therapist to help you'. I was too poor. People that live on the borderline of poverty do not get charity because it does not go that far down the line. I wish I had someone to help me, but it never happened. I did it myself. I still get stuck on a word sometimes, but I don't let it bother me. When I go home, people say, 'Man, it would take you 10 minutes to say a sentence when you were young, and now you're traveling around the country, speaking to corporations and thousands of people. How...did you do it?'

Bo Jackson, interview, article w

Write that down, the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.

Lewis Carroll

My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.

Shia LaBeouf

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

Marge Piercy

We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren't anything else.

Patrick Ness

It's late,' he said again, murmuring, almost crooning now, his voice smoother than silk. 'Sleep, my Bella. Dream happy dreams. You are the only one who has ever touched my heart. It will always be yours. Sleep, my only love.

Stephenie Meyer

MRS. ALLONBY: She told me yesterday, and in quite a loud voice too, that she was only eighteen. It was most annoying. LORD ILLINGWORTH: One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.

Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Impor

My mother told me that truth is like my skin, a beautiful, protective covering, and the things that people say or do can be easily changed or discarded. She told me truth comes from the heart.

Stewart Lewis

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

Nancy Pelosi

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

Frank Sinatra

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Nig