The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Mark Twain

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Michel de Montaigne

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

Friedrich Nietzsche

I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.

Adriana Lima

Jim Crow was king . . . and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive. The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.

Lou Brock, "International Herald

Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

Arthur Schopenhauer

My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge, or the present aspect of affairs, do I despair of the future. The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.

General Robert E. Lee, letter to

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

Mayim Bialik

Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.

Michael Dirda

We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.

Hillary Clinton

Obedience is better than sacrifice.

Bible

These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.

Bar Refaeli