It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

One of the most important virtues in social life, a virtue that is becoming less common by the day, is discretion.

Adolf Freiherr Knigge

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Billie Jean King

If there's to be damnation, she had said, let it be of my choosing, not theirs. He knew a little about damnation himself and he had an idea that the lessons, far from being done, were just beginning.

Stephen King

I am going to miss that time when you take that corner better than anybody else could have taken it on that lap or you do that great qualifying lap or you make that great pass or you bring a crippled car home.

Bobby Rahal

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

Martin H. Fischer

What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

William Penn

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Markus Zusak

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Samuel Goldwyn

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

John Irving, Interview in Writer

In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.

Kenny Marchant

My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.

Dorothy Hamill