If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.

Virgil, Aenid

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

B. R. Ambedkar

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

Thomas Paine

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

Paulo Coelho

No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.

Proverb

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

Rodney King

Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society.

Thomas Frank

Bill Bennett really became an idol for me. I listened to him every morning from 6 to 9 for, oh, years.

Jonathan Krohn

I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it.

Shia LaBeouf

See it first in your mind, then become it.

Steve Backley

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

Ron Livingston