Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

You never fail until you stop trying.

Albert Einstein

I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.

Irvin D. Yalom

What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives.

Stephen Richards

He taught me housekeeping when I divorce I keep the house.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common needle users, and on the buttock, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals.

William F. Buckley

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

Thomas Paine

I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.

John Green

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

Denis Diderot

For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.

Desiderius Erasmus

Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.

Alexander Pope

It only takes one drink to get me drunk. I can just never remember if it's the eighth or ninth.

George Burns

Literature, as a field of glory, is an arena where a tomb may be more easily found than laurels; and as a means of support, it is the chance of chances.

Henry Giles