"Pride is a wound and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open that wound again and again. Among men it seldom heals and often grows septic."

“Donate and do not talk about it, they say you do nothing for the society; do and talk about it, they say you seek publicity!”

“I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.”

“I hope I've grown. We all should grow from year to year.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com

“I'm in the reporting part of journalism.”

Source : "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

“My whole world changed when Michael Jackson brought out the Bad album when I was about eight or nine. He took over my whole life and from then on I wanted to be Michael Jackson. I watched his videos for hours and learned how to dance like him. I would push back the chairs in the room and learn his dance moves. I even taught myself to moonwalk.”

“Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.”

“No human government has a right to enquire into private opinions, to presume that it knows them, or to act on that presumption. Men are the best judges of the consequences of their own opinions, and how far they are likely to influence their actions; and it is most unnatural and tyrannical to say, "as you think, so must you act. I will collect the evidence of your future conduct from what I know to be your opinions."”

Source : Charles-James Fox (1815). “The Speeches ... in the House of Commons”, p.2

“The thing that pleases me the most about it is that young people like it. It's given kids from 6 to 16 an alternate view of music to what's been available for the past 20 years.”