I... chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death.

Blaise Pascal

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

Marguerite Blessington

I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

Danica McKellar

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist

Charles Baudelaire

I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking people love him. Same with Gene Hackman.

Shia LaBeouf

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

Joan Didion

We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.

Jurgen Klinsmann

God did not call the qualified to serve Him: instead He qualified the called.

Judy Baer

I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'

Bharati Mukherjee

Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)