We, who have already borne on the road to Paradise the lives of the best among us, want a difficult, erect, implacable Paradise; a Paradise where one can never rest and which has, beside the threshold of the gates, angels with swords.

But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association.

Terry Pratchett

...luck is not to be coerced.

Albert Camus

But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.

Jack Herer

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

Cyril Cusack

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

Neils Bohr

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Sam Rayburn

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Theodore Roosevelt

The only victory over love is flight.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Technology is not good, it's neutral.

Tom Shadyac

I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

Keanu Reeves

Mens indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

Thucydides

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Hippocrates