I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening.

Matthew Arnold

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

Mary McCarthy

His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.

Evelyn Waugh

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

Albert Einstein

When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don't even think about that.

Sebastian Vettel

I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.

David Rockefeller

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

Hedy Lamarr

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

Andrew Jackson

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.

Jerry West

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

Milton Berle

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

Nelson Mandela