A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.

Wendy Cope

There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.

Herman Melville

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Albert Einstein

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

Stanislav Grof

Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Donald Downes

Golf is very much like a love affair, if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it breaks your heart. Don't break your heart, but flirt with the possibility.

Louise Suggs

American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

Jackie Chan

While it may seem small, the ripple effects of small things is extraordinary.

Matt Bevin

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

John F. Kennedy

Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.

J.K. Rowling

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

Aesop