The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.

Sienna Miller

To our Creator, a small detail is a big deal.

Todd Stocker

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein

Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.

Leo Tolstoy

Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts.

Shaun White

First comes thought then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.

Alexander Pope

Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke.

John Krasinski

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

Iris Murdoch

For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy.

Dennis Franz

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Sir Walter Scott

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron