Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

I think women get caught up too much in having a plan - 'I'm going to get married at this age I'm going to have a kid at this age' - and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don't want my life to be based on that.

Julia Stiles

But is there any comfort to be found? Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?

William Butler Yeats

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

Sarah Palin

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.

William Wordsworth

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Adolf Loos

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.

Walter Annenberg

I am a man: nothing human is foreign to me.

Menander

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

Michelangelo

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Reject hatred without hating.

Mary Baker Eddy

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

Mikhail Bakunin

Don't start with a class. Start with a protocol.

Dave Abrahams