I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. The screw would not go in, would not come out, but turned in the same groove without catching hold, and it was impossible to stop turning it.

Leo Tolstoy

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

Honore de Balzac

I said pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.

Marilyn Monroe

Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.

Poppy Z. Brite

The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.

Salman Khan

We must use time creatively - and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

Martin Luther King Jr.

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

Steve Wozniak

I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.

Jared Leto

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Frederick W. Faber