Don't wait to be a great man -- be a great boy.

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

Samuel Johnson

A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.

Lee Haney

More of your conversation would infect my brain.

William Shakespeare

When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.

Zig Ziglar

Seek truth from facts.

Deng Xiaoping

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

Enid Bagnold, Autobiography, ch.

All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.

Fidel Castro, in John Newhouse,

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.

Matthew Lillard

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

Henry James

Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? And here is my good big centipede! If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.

William S. Burroughs

Sometimes the gods have no taste at all. They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue hues that any professional artist would dismiss as the work of some enthsiastic amateur who'd never looked at a real sunset. This was one of those sunrises. It was the kind of sunrise a man looks at and says, 'No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink.'Nevertheless, it was beautiful.

Terry Pratchett, The Thief of Ti

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Theodor Adorno