If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O!

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

Vera Nazarian

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.

LouisFerdinand Celine

Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama.

Tony Kushner

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

William Blake

I want a language that speaks the truth.

Studs Terkel

I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.

Shinzo Abe

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

Kristin Hersh

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

Sidney Poitier

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Chanakya

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Aleister Crowley