Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

Channing Pollock

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more.

A.E. Croft

That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.

Bill Sienkiewicz

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

Paul Theroux

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

Vince Lombardi

Elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over, and, though determined not to slacken as a correspondent, it was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

Jane Austen

I'll get up in the morning while they've all got hangovers and run my 5 miles. But the women who do run are usually 10 years younger than me and they're really obsessed about running. That's all they do. They're really boring.

Trisha Goddard

I have several dogs and several cats who aren't really mine. In fact, they think that I am theirs. I'd like to have some goats and chickens, but I travel around too much.

Eric Stoltz

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.

Nicolas Chamfort

The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. I've never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon.

Anthony Mackie

If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.

Phillip E. Johnson