Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

Eberhard Arnold

An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.

Mark Twain

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Dale Carnegie

You are exactly what you seem, and so you always assume that other people are, too.

Orson Scott Card

People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.

Russell Brand

I just want to make people smile.

Julie Garwood

Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.

Alexander Payne

The first step is the hardest.

Marie De VichyChamrond

He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

William Shakespeare

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

Anatole France

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Arnold Palmer

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Clifford Stoll