"Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies."

“No one is perfect in this world. Forgive people for not knowing better and learn to move on.”

“I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.”

Source : "Exclusive Interview With Duane 'Dog' Chapman". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. November 6, 2007.

“The president is out there today trying to talk about health care, and the reality is nobody cares about what he's saying on health care because this news is consuming everything. No president could tolerate that or should tolerate it.”

“Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.439, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

“To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic an event was unmentioned and unnoticed not only in the rich historical literature of medieval Islam, but even in the literatures of the Coptic and other Christian churches, of the Byzantines, of the Jews, or anyone else who might have thought the destruction of a great library worthy of comment. That the story still survives, and is repeated, despite all these objections, is testimony to the enduring power of a myth.”

“I'd like to be a truck driver. I think you could run your life that way. It wouldn't be such a bad way of doing it. It would offer a chance to be alone.”

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”

“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.”