The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

Amory, Cleveland

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

Alvin Lee

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Albert Camus

He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.

Michael Kinsley

O unbelievers, I serve not what you serve and you are not serving what I serve, nor am I serving what you have served, neither are you serving what I serve. To you your religion, and to me my religion!

Qur'an

People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.

Curtis Sittenfeld

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it.

Jim Carrey

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

Jose Marti

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

John Jay Chapman

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

J. G. Ballard

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite

Cassandra Clare

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

Friedrich Nietzsche