Dr. Miller says we are pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed-up film. If you ask What the hell is wrong with the projector? and go up to the control room, you find it's empty. You are the projectionist, and you should have been up there all the time.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Maxwell Maltz

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

John Charles Polanyi

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

Frank McCourt

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

Elizabeth I

There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of ones fellow man.

Groucho Marx

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

Kurt Vonnegut

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Les Brown

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

Samuel Beckett

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

George Bernard Shaw

I do not think it altogether inappropriate to introduce myself to this audience. I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I wake up in the morning and I see that flower, with the dew on its petals, and at the way it's folding out, and it makes me happy, she said. It's important to focus on the things in the here and now, I think. In a month, the flower will be shriveled and you will miss its beauty if you don't make the effort to do it now. Your life, eventually, is the same way.

Dan Buettner

The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.

Terry Pratchett