It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

G. K. Chesterton

Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.

Valerie Bertinelli

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

Henny Youngman

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.

Gustav Heinemann

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

Kwame Nkrumah

While pimples are not as simple as too much milk or sugar in your diet, both have a significant impact. Nutritional deficiencies as well as excesses can worsen acne.

Mark E. Hyman

I love being a scientologist, as it's helped me in every single aspect of my life.

Kelly Preston

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

Willie Nelson

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

Anita Brookner

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Mahatma Gandhi

Old programmers never die. They just branch out to a new address.

Anon.

Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.

James Thurber, On retinal images