I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand.

I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.

Tom Jones

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Hilaire Belloc

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

Oscar Wilde

I don't tolerate politics that come from anger. I want a politics derived from beauty... I don't admire politicians, but poets. (Rubem Alves, p. 189)

Mev Puleo

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

Denis Waitley

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Walter Savage Landor

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Jane Austen

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

Phillips Brooks

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Gertrude Stein

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Bertrand Russell

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

Fay Godwin