When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

I love spicy food.

Cynthia Nixon

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

Paul Rudnick

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

Dorothy Malone

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

Josh Billings

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Johann von Goethe

The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.

Jose Mourinho

When I left Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and kissed me on the mouth and began to cry and ran back into the house, leaving the doorway empty [...] I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again. (p. 262)

Raymond Chandler

You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others.

Stanley C. Gault

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

George Herbert

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Robert Orben

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

Carl Schurz

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge