Experience is the teacher of all things.

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

James Fenimore Cooper

Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

H. L. Mencken

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Ulysses Simpson Grant

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.

Gertrude Stein

I don't know if there is a gene for comedy, but my dad was a very funny man. He just didn't know it. He was a naturally funny character, and when my brother and I would laugh at things he said and did, he would say, 'What do you think is so funny?'

James Belushi

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

Margaret Fuller

My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men so the world of Reality exists for all; and all may participate in it, unite with it, according to their measure and to the strength and purity of their desire.

Evelyn Underhill

We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

Johann von Goethe

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

William Arthur Ward

It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written.

Stephen King

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Albert Einstein