It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

Steven Squyres

The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.

Source Unknown

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Aristotle Onassis

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

Queen Victoria

Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.

Dale Carnegie

Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.

Christopher Hitchens

Geraldine: We must tell the truth! Prentice: That's a thoroughly defeatist attitude.

Joe Orton

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Carl Sandburg

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

James Hillman

To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and appetite for life that gives the power to record everyday happenings while magically freeing them from banality and triviality.

William Plomer

A liar is full of oaths.

Pierre Corneille