The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.

R. L. Stine

Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God, Why go right ahead and scold Him. He'll just smile and nod.

Kurt Vonnegut

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

Rand Paul

Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

Dame Ethel Smyth

No, my mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close.

Stephen Colbert

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Jean Nathan

I told my doctor I broke my arm in two places. He told me to keep out of those places.

Rodney Dangerfield

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

Yoko Ono

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable the principles of it are troublesome.

Benjamin Whichcote

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.

George Combe

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

Stephen Fry

He didn't want to play football. He wanted to be told the truth.

John Boyne