If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent

Albert Einstein

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

David Byrne

Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.

Caroline Kennedy

But alas, the world is not a wish-granting factory.

John Green

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

John Keats

In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag.

Christopher Hitchens

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Will Rogers

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

Albert Ellis

Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

Jodi Picoult

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

Margaret Cho