When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

Jacques Delille

We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.

Valerie Jarrett

Don't make jokes about food.

David Lean

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Bertrand Russell

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

H. P. Lovecraft

In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.

Janis Karpinski

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

George Eliot, In a letter to Geo

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

Anthony D'Angelo

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Lord Byron

If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.

Laura Schlessinger

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.

William Wordsworth, from Preface

Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.

Federico Fellini, "Atlantic Mont