If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

Dorothy Hamill

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

Marquis de Sade

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Henry Ford

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

Toni Morrison

The Band was always famous for its retirements we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.

Rick Danko

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

Ruby Wax

Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.

Sonya Hartnett

The true division of humanity is this: the luminous and the dark...To diminish the number of the dark, to increase the number of the luminous, there is the aim.

Victor Hugo

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

Al Boliska

But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider... That thought was our power.

Joshua Chamberlain

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Ambrose Bierce

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

John Templeton