If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

Johnny Carson

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

Cary Grant

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

Kahlil Gibran

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

e. e. cummings

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Bern Williams

But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off.

Martin C. Smith

If every one was satisfied with themselves, there would be no heroes

Mark Twain

There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.

Diane Arbus, From class lectures

I love just lying on the floor at home watching games with my dad. No pressures, just being me.

David Keith

Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.

Tony Campolo

It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

James Keller

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin