Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?

James Joyce

Sometimes change was good. Sometimes it was even exactly what you needed.

Jenny O'Connell

What I love best in life is new starts.

Karl Lagerfeld

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

Agnes Smedley

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

Neil Gaiman

Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously believes that these things can every one of them , in all their tones and semi-tones, in all their blends and unions, be accurately represented by an arbitrary system of grunts and squeals. He believes that an ordinary civilized stockbroker can really produce out of his own inside noises which denote all the mysteries of memory and all the agonies of desire.

G. K. Chesterton

Mark it, nuncle.Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest,Lend less than thou owest,Ride more than thou goest,Learn more than thou trowest,Set less than thou throwest,Leave thy drink and thy whoreAnd keep in-a-door,And thou shalt have moreThan two tens to a score.

William Shakespeare

I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.

Chris Evans

A canner exceedingly cannyOne morning remarked to his granny:

Carolyn Wells

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

Antonio Machado

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.

William Graham Sumner