Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

Henry David Thoreau

Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith.

Grover Norquist

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

Katharine Whitehorn

As a science of the unconscious it is a therapeutic method, in the grand style, a method overarching the individual case. Call this, if you choose, a poet's utopia.

Thomas Mann

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

Brigitte Bardot

When we want something, we have to have a clear purpose in mind for the thing that we want. The only reason for seeking a reward is to know what to do with that reward

Paulo Coelho

While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Eugene Debs

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

Michael Chabon

As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?

John Trumbull

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

Lyman Abbott

Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost...perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that precious little fragment as well.

Philip K. Dick

I have a new found respect for women who have been through breast cancer and this surgery.

Giuliana Rancic