Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

Lady Gaga

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

Anna Julia Cooper

We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

Jose Narosky

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

Spiro T. Agnew

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.

David Brenner

The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, & most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the Legislature. But the Doctrines lately advanced strike at the root of all these provisions, and will deposit the peace of the Country in that Department which the Constitution distrusts as most ready without cause to renounce it. For if the opinion of the President not the facts & proofs themselves are to sway the judgment of Congress, in declaring war, and if the President in the recess of Congress create a foreign mission, appoint the minister, & negociate a War Treaty, without the possibility of a check even from the Senate, untill the measures present alternatives overruling the freedom of its judgment; if again a Treaty when made obliges the Legislature to declare war contrary to its judgment, and in pursuance of the same doctrine, a law declaring war, imposes a like moral obligation, to grant the requisite supplies until it be formally repealed with the consent of the President & Senate, it is evident that the people are cheated out of the best ingredients in their Government, the safeguards of peace which is the greatest of their blessings.

James Madison

To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.

Harold Nicolson

It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverb

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

Mahatma Gandhi

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Oscar Wilde

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Andy Grove

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Sc