It's been an amazing year of individual performances.

As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

Justice, n. A commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.

Ambrose Bierce

I'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can offer, and they temper you into something unbreakable because Lord knows they'll try -- without let up -- to break you.

Mary Karr

If it weren't for pickpockets I'd have no sex life at all.

Rodney Dangerfield

Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.

Lewis Thomas

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Charles Caleb Colton

I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.

Harrison Ford

Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.

Midrash

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

Ernest Renan

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Chanakya

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.

Stephen King