Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

Oliver North

Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.

Albert Einstein

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.

Taylor Hackford

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

Jessica Savitch

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Andrea Dworkin

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

Carl Sandburg

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Lily Tomlin

You must be willing to do the things today others don't do in order to have the things tomorrow others won't have.

Les Brown, Live Your Dreams

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Philip Larkin

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

Federico Fellini