I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Paulo Coelho

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

Anton Chekhov

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

Terry Pratchett

When you work on your own life, you are less likely to hyper focus on the imperfections of your husband.

Martha Quinn

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

David Starr Jordan

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.

Walter Mosley

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

Michael Mandelbaum

If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.

Cory Lidle

Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.

Tommy Steele

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

Richard P. Feynman

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Laurence Hope Nicolson