The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.

If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us! or How came you by that brow of scorn? But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, as one set by God in that place. Remember too, that if you abide in those ways, those who first mocked you, the same shall afterwards reverence you; but if you yield to them, you will be laughed at twice as much as before.

Epictetus

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Jean Cocteau

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.

Queen Elizabeth

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

Fran Drescher

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Richard Milhous Nixon

That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.

Stephen Hadley

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad.

Maurice Sendak

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

Oscar Wilde

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

Jim Carrey

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

Oscar Wilde

It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.

Frederick William Robertson

...and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

Stephen King