I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.

Proverb

The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the end is no longer to know what is, but to bring into existence that which is not yet.

Jacques Maritain

He is every other inch a gentleman.

Rebecca West

There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.

Francis Ford Coppola

Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.

Bill Parcells

In life there can be no victor, for death comes to all and smites them.

J.R.R. Tolkien

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

David M. Heath

As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

Oscar Wilde

And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?

Paul McCartney

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

Jorge Luis Borges

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

Ann Druyan