It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

Arthur C. Brooks

If you have no problems at your job you don't have a job you've got a hobby.

Ronald Dunn

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

Eldridge Cleaver

The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads so that, while seated on the lavatory, waiting in doctors' surgeries, on stationary trains or watching interviews with politicians, they may have something interesting to think about.

Sir John Mortimer

This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.

Art Buchwald

Those who are purporting this one-world government ideology seek to achieve the pinnacle of power like so many that came before them did. And yes, they are the wolves afflicting the human race with death. They are like a cancer.

James Dye

She realized, when relationships failed to last, it was not because love was no longer present, but because people had stopped believing in themselves and in their partners.

Christina Westover

I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.

David Duchovny

Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

Bible

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

Dave Van Ronk

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

Paul Valery

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

Stephen King