Today the nations of the world may be divided into two classes -- the nations in which the government fears the people, and the nations in which the people fear the government.

I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Charles Baudelaire

'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Miguel de Cervantes

The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

Vida D. Scudder

There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.

David Simon

There occurs the beautiful feeling that only humanity together is the true human being, and that the individual can be cheerful and happy only if he has the courage to feel himself in the Whole.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

Ernest Hemingway

The English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves.

Sully

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Plato

Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Martin Luther King Jr.