Every really able man, in whatever direction he work, - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter,-if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Josh Billings

Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Ambrose Bierce

Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept that, the military to accept it, the VA to accept it.

Christopher Shays

He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man

William Shakespeare, Julius Caes

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Carl Sandburg

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Virginia Woolf

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

Tyler Durden

The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and he's still as funny as he's ever been, and he's still angry. And that makes me feel good, because I feel like if I stick around long enough, I'll still be able to work.

Denis Leary

The day I won an Emmy was also the day my father passed away. I received a call from my sister on the way to the ceremony and had to turn my car around and catch the first flight back to Karachi.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

...the staff at my university, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and later all of Boston were behaving strangely towards me. ...I started to see crypto-communists everywhere. ...I started to think I was a man of great religious importance, and to hear voices all the time. I began to hear something like telephone calls in my head, from people opposed to my ideas. ...The delirium was like a dream from which I seemed never to awake.

John Forbes Nash

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties

Henry David Thoreau