Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that.

There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

Johann von Goethe

We've moved so much, and my life has been so inconsistent.

Frances Bean Cobain

There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results.

Aldrich Ames

The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything

Antonin Artaud, The Theater and

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.

Voltaire

We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

A. Philip Randolph, Keynote addr

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.

Yancy Butler

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement -- that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it -- that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.

Walter Lippmann

I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.

Ernest Shackleton