If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I'd like to go fairy tale all the way.

NeNe Leakes

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

Calvin Coolidge

Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.

will.i.am

I've never heard of anybody getting rid of their prized Exile postcards, much less actually writing on them and sending them through the mail to a girl. I watched these two, laughing over this story at the same kitchen table they've shared for thirty years. I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.

Rob Sheffield

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

Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Sc

Whatever comes in my way, I take it with smile.

Kubra Sait

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

Carter Glass

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

Bayard Rustin

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Barack Obama

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

Robert K. Merton

Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just think how it's improved her French.

Harry Graham

A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.

David Mamet