I wanted to find a nice quiet spot, go to sleep, and dream about kittens.

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?

Michael Bloomberg

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Samuel Johnson

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

Charles W. Chesnutt

It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Jean Paul Richter

To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.

Kelly Gallagher

I definitely had a top-notch education.

Paul Giamatti

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

There is no such thing as a good tax.

Winston Churchill

A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isnt.

Don Williams, Jr

When we were at school we were taught to sing the songs of the Europeans. How many of us were taught the songs of the Wanyamwezi or of the Wahehe? Many of us have learnt to dance the rumba, or the cha cha, to rock and roll and to twist and even to dance the waltz and foxtrot. But how many of us can dance, or have even heard of the gombe sugu, the mangala, nyang umumi, kiduo, or lele mama?

Julius Kambarge Nyerere

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

Shinichi Suzuki