It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

Jimmy Carter

Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded; no, not when Caligulas horse was made Consul.

John Randolph

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

Sting

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

Arnold Rothstein

With all things and in all things,we are relatives.

American Indian Proverb, Sioux

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The spirits of children are remote and wise...

Frances Cornford

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Albert Pike, (attributed)

It is a false and dangerous situation which bases public power on private want, and roots the grandeur of the State in the suffering of the individual. It is a badly constituted grandeur which combines all the material elements, and into which no moral element enters.

Victor Hugo

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again.

Bret Harte

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

William Shakespeare