Edmund Burke

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.