Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?

Barbara Ehrenreich

Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.

Raquel Welch

I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.

Michael J. Fox

He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.

American Indian Proverb, Southwe

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

Salman Rushdie

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Sextus Propertius

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

Elizabeth I

Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.

Valentine De SaintPoint

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity.

Samuel Johnson

We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.

Les Aspin

A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan