The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

Finley Peter Dunne

I think that you love who you love, and there are people who you love that people aren't going to understand why, and that sort of doesn't really matter.

Piper Perabo

Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.

B. R. Ambedkar

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Toni Morrison

I'm turning 22, so I want to start getting into work that reflects where I'm at in life now.

Kimbra

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are co

Bertrand Russell

Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.

Alexander Pope

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.

Richard Holbrooke

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Charles de Gaulle

I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.

Mos Def

To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.

Wendell Berry