Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

Howard Nemerov

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Thomas Jefferson

I am a single mom and I'm the breadwinner and I have to work and I have to do these things and that's just the way it is. I don't think my son even knows any different.

Charisma Carpenter

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Andy Rooney

Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.

Wanda Sykes

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.

Roger Ebert

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

Henry Miller

A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot

Allan Beck

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Sigmund Freud

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

Marcus Aurelius

On the theory of the soul

David Hume