You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Joseph F. Smith

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Bono

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

Jodi Picoult

;now that one was mature then, said Peter, one could watch, one could understand, and one did not lose the power of feeling, he said. No, that is true, said Sally. She felt more deeply, more passionately, every year. It increased, he said, alas, perhaps, but one should be glad of it-- it went on increasing in his experience.

Virginia Woolf

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

Stephen Leacock

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

Donald Rumsfeld

Who has a right to tell me I have no gift, no talent, no passion ...' he murmured. 'Why do people say those things to you when youre young? Doesn't seem fair, does it?''No, darling, it's not fair,'she said. 'But the mystery is why you listen.

Anne Rice

Sometimes you're famous before you're good.

Maggie Q

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

John Polanyi

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

Earl Warren

Another important aspect of our home was respect for ideas.

Robert B. Laughlin