From a Child I was fond of Reading, and all the little Money that came into my Hands was ever laid out in Books.

I went to a 711 and asked for a 2x4 and a box of 3x5's. Theclerk said, tenfour.

Steven Wright

Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of a listing of his income for taxes to contribute to his Government, not the scriptural tithe, but a small percentage of his net profits.

Cordell Hull

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.

Henry Ford

We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean.

Will Smith

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

Ethel Watts Mumford

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Blaise Pascal

To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her.

Jodi Picoult

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

W. H. Auden

Probably went swimming and got eaten by a pineapple.

Terry Pratchett

Frank and explicit -- that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

Benjamin Disraeli

Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.

Jeff Greenfield