A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Oscar Wilde

Is the sunrise superior just because it goes before the sunset with a day and sunset goes before the sunrise with a night? Could there be day without night and sunrise without sunset, life without death?

Sorin Cerin

It's amazing that no matter how much money you have, you can make some bad decisions, and in five months you're on the street, begging.

Paz de la Huerta

Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.

Noam Chomsky

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

Viktor E. Frankl

Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To me, flowers are happiness.

Stefano Gabbana

We have this window of opportunity; we have a chance to make something real happen. Something possible happen, to live beyond our fear — think about that, and help us. Help lift us up, help us fight this fight to change, — transform — this country in a fundamental way.

Michelle Obama

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

Ezra Pound

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

Oliver Cromwell

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Danish proverb

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.

Thucydides