Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark, with results undreamed of even by those who thought they knew us best.

Joseph Farrell, Lectures of a Ce

A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'

Lewis Black

She was so ugly that I took her to a dog show and she won first prize.

Rodney Dangerfield

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory thatsomeone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of livingis a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one dayyou look down and see how much pain has eroded.

Jodi Picoult

Gold is what people worship if they don't go with the invisible God.

James Dye

The destiny of man is in his own soul

Herodotus

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

John Mayer

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Henry Miller

He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.

Barrow

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

John Steinbeck