I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Charles Darwin

I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.

Eric Bana

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Brander Matthews

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something

Aldous Huxley

There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.

Christine Gregoire

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

Jodi Picoult

One woman who managed to corner him, the story runs, said in a treacly gushing voice:Doesnt it thrill you, Mr. Churchill, to know that every time you make a speech the hall is packed to overflowing?It is quite flattering, Mr. Churchill replied, but whenever I feel this way I always remember that if instead of making a political speech I was being hanged, the crowd would be twice as big.

Sir Winston Churchill

And if we do not stand now, then when will a stand be taken against evil?

Bodie Thoene

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Albert Einstein

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

Henry James

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

Francis Quarles

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Confucius