The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

Thomas Jefferson

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Diana Ross

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

Oswald Chambers

Even the good she found in him was really the goodness she had put in him, the goodness he had put on himself as a disguise in order to get her to marry him.

Orson Scott Card

Behind every great man is a man greater, his father.

Habeeb Akande

Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

Virginia Woolf

People smile at me as if they know me. I just smile back. They probably might know me.

Jim Broadbent

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Igor Stravinsky

Don't believe everything you read. It's very difficult to be accepting of our own bodies. This topic deserves it's own book, but since I'm not qualified to write it, I won't. Instead I'll just say this: The pictures staring out at you from the supermarket checkout stands, the images we are all supposed to aspire to? They lie

Ally Carter

The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

George Deukmejian

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.

Carl Levin

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Thomas Jefferson