The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

Larry Merchant

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

Vittorio Alfieri

Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.

John P. Mascotte

A half-truth is a whole lie

Yiddish Proverb

If I'm diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.

Gus Van Sant

Leadership is working with goals and vision management is working with objectives.

Russel Honore

I don't purposely speed, but I might go over by five or six miles an hour from time to time. It doesn't give me a buzz driving on normal roads, because I can't go fast enough. It's never going to be anything like an F1 car.

Jenson Button

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Henry David Thoreau

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Logan Pearsall Smith

Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.

Thomas Jefferson

Ah, love, let us be trueTo one another! for the world, which seemsTo lie before us like a land of dreams,So various, so beautiful, so new,Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;And we are here as on a darkling plainSwept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Matthew Arnold