The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

Leo Tolstoy

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

Imre Lakatos

That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities.

Casey Kasem

Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.

Garrison Keillor

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.

Elbert Hubbard

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

Lee Trevino

Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.

Zach Wamp

I am not obsessive about anything except my health.

Linda Gray

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.

Oscar Wilde

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

Claudius Claudianus

Love is being stupid together.

Paul Valery

Either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another....Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

Plato