Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.

I say find one true friend to help you get through the tough times.

Kelly Osbourne

I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people.

Channing Tatum

What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.

Bertolt Brecht

We were meant to give our lives away. Spend more time living your legacy instead of worrying about leaving it.

Lee J. Colan

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

Charles Lamb

By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.

Jacob Bronowski

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Bern Williams

Writing is a communication.

Theodore Sturgeon

A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.

Stephen Covey

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

Ninon De L'Enclos

The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch.

Proverb