In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Henry Adams

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

Murray Kempton

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Newt Gingrich

But I want you to know that you're a beautiful girl, far more beautiful than I ever was at your age, and that starving yourself to compete with all of those skinny celebrities who spend half their lives checking in and out of rehab is not only a completely unreasonable and unattainable goal, but will only end up making you sick.

Alyson Noel

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?

Christopher Walken

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.

Ethan Hawke

If you purify your soul of attachment to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually. If you deny your appetite for them, you will enjoy their truth, understanding what is certain in them.

Saint John of the Cross

And when my days run out, I will have lived just a blink of time and the rest will be eternal joy.

Abby Danielle Burlbaugh

The best way to prepare for death is to live life to its fullest.

John Bytheway

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Hippocrates

The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death

Neil Gaiman

Never wound a snake; kill it.

Harriet Tubman