"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

“The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.”

Source : John Selden, Richard Milward (1821). “Seldeniana: with a biographical preface”, p.100

“Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.”

“I don't recruit players who are nasty to their parents. I look for players who realize the world doesn't revolve around them.”

“In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers, And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn: Object of my implacable disgust.”

“Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned.”

Source : Bruce Catton, James M. McPherson (1960). “The Civil War”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“For Humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling ***** burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn.”

“When I'm 75 years old, I want to say that I chased my dream. I didn't let other people's opinions dictate what I have in my book of my life.”

Source : "Meet Being Mary Jane's 'Cutty Buddy,' Thomas Q. Jones". Interview with Demetria Lucas D'Oyley, www.theroot.com. February 24, 2015.

“Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.”