I applaud the courage of he who accepts each and every one of the laws of a game he did not invent and was not asked if he wanted to play

I am not a writer except when I write.

Here is a good way for the world to make a good progress: Let the less clever nations learn good things from the more clever nations!

So long, I replied, may we all have one good flight before we rest among flowers and the orbits of hungry worms.

Sorrows are like thunderclouds - in the distance they look black over our heads scarcely gray.

From a private gentlewoman you have made me first a marchioness, then a queen; and, as you can raise me no higher in the world, you are now sending me to be a saint in Heaven.

I want to die on my own terms.

It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.

Shawty Imma only tell you this once, you the illest And for your loving Imma die hard like Bruce Willis

Young Americans must never again be sent to fight and die unless we are prepared to let them win.

I'm not sure that I recovered, but I also know that I cannot afford going back yet. I see how much the kids are happier, I guess, here and I think that they might have a better future not hiding.