A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

Woody Allen

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

Amy Tan

Absent, adj. Peculiarly exposed to the tooth of detraction; vilifed; hopelessly in the wrong; superseded in the consideration and affection of another.

Ambrose Bierce

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

Italo Calvino

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

Elias Canetti

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

Vachel Lindsay

Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.

Frederick II

I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.

Walt Whitman

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.

Bobby Bowden

The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence.

John Rosemond

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld