I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

Benjamin Cardozo

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Benjamin Franklin

Plato was a bore.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

Swami Vivekananda

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

Orson Scott Card

You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.

Angela Carter

Oh seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday Go take your damned tomorrow!

Dorothy Parker, Godspeed

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.

Tracy Kidder

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Thomas Alva Edison

What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.

Clara Zetkin

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all. How do we define this lively darting about with words, of hitting them back and forth, this sort of brief smile of ideas which should be conversation?

Maupassant

A car for every purse and purpose.

Alfred P. Sloan