"There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not."

“I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.”

“As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there is a degree of vague ill-will towards what is called Thinking. ... I am tempted to believe that much of the mischief thus laid at the door of that poor unknown quantity Thinking is really due to its ubiquitous twin-brother Talking.”

Source : Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of Life”

“I don't agree with the libertarians. I want my security first. I'll deal with all the details after that.”

Source : The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 17, 2005.

“Only the most saintly and delusional among us welcomes all pain as challenge, perceives all loss as harsh blessing.”

Source : Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.4, A&C Black

“Courtesy is fine and heaven knows we need more and more of it in a rude and frenetic world, but mechanized courtesy is as pallid as Pablum ... in fact, it isn't even courtesy.”

Source : Cornelia Otis Skinner (1959). “The Ape in Me”

“Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.”

“...love is never stationary.”

“Let's throw it on the wall and see if it sticks.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.