When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.

Horace Bushnell

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. This is the first step towards becoming either estimable or agreeable; and until it be taken there is no hope. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it. Sometimes the great truth is found out too late to apply to it any effectual remedy. Sometimes it is never found at all; and these form the desperate and inveterate causes of folly, self-conceit, and impertinence.

Lord Melbourne

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

Randy Newman

My girlfriend does her nails with whiteout. When she's asleep,I go over there and write misspelled words on them.

Steven Wright

The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

Edward Thorndike

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

Alfred North Whitehead

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'

Paul Theroux

Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.

Neil Gaiman

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.

Sloane Crosley

My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate.

Angie Stone