If truth make us not truthful, what service can it render us?

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

Oscar Wilde

My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand -- like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

Katharine Hepburn

As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. The only person who's going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law abiding citizen, who then cannot have it if he wants protection the protection of a weapon in his home, for home protection.

Ronald Reagan

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought[.]

Virginia Woolf

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Khalil Gibran

Well, I'm not a crook.

Richard Milhous Nixon

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

Billy Joel

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

John Updike

There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.

Aaliyah

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Ernest Hemingway

The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

Rumi

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Harriet Beecher Stowe