"House Speaker John Boehner said the Republican Party will no longer stand in the way of gay marriage. Then Boehner said, 'Now can I go to Elton John's Oscar party?'"

“People who say that they can't appreciate a great wine generally haven't tasted one”

“For hundreds of years the use of the word 'man' has troubled critical scholars, careful translators, and lawyers. Difficulties occur whenever and wherever it is important for truth-seeking purposes to know what is being talked about and the context gives no intimation whether 'man' means just a human being irrespective of sex or means a masculine being and none other.”

“Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities.”

“It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.”

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

“Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Oct 18, 2016

“What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.”

Source : Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.70, Macmillan

“It is a woman, and only a woman, — a woman all by herself, if she likes, and without any man to help her, — who can turn a house into a home.”

Source : Frances Power Cobbe (2010). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

“He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides”