If you wish to be loved; Love!

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The truth is I am a perfect part of the exact point at which all individual human beings meet and the spectrum of voices weaving themselves in between and screaming 'every sick thought you've ever had and every twisted feeling you've ever felt are what make this painting complete.

Buddy Wakefield

I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.

Philip Glass

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.

Billy Wilder

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Jean Rostand

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

Mary Baker Eddy

In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continually.

Victor Hugo

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

Henry Louis Gates

In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

I wonder men dare trust themselves with men

William Shakespeare

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Josh Billings