When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.

Aaliyah

I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.

Bill Cartwright

One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.

Douglas Adams

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

Walter Isaacson

Commit to CANI! -- Constant And Never-ending Improvement

Anthony Robbins

At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

Alexander Pope

You can say a lot of things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are unduly afraid of deep fryers.

John Green

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

John F. Kennedy

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Aldous Huxley

Usually a person has more faith in their fear than faith in their future.

Doug Firebaugh