I don't smoke, don't drink much, and go to the gym five times a week. I live a healthy lifestyle and feel great. I can run a marathon, you know.

I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

Laura Linney

What we accept as reality is primarily a construction of our imagination.

Joey Lawsin

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

Olin Miller

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

C. S. Lewis

This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him.

Richard M. Helms

Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven?

Jodi Picoult

A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.

John F. Kennedy

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Mark Twain

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C.S. Lewis

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

William Hazlitt

The gods sell to us all the goods which they give us.

Epicharmus

O, beauty aren't you enough?

Nancy Butcher