Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

Robert Sheckley

I often quote myself; it adds spice to my conversation.

George Bernard Shaw

The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

I had a girlfriend that was so fat her belly button made an echo.

Rodney Dangerfield

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

William Hazlitt

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

Nathaniel Branden

I like American history.

Kevin Costner

Death is a fearful thing

William Shakespeare

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.

Simon Cowell

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron