My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

Jeremy Taylor

I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.

James Boswell

We control the content of our dreams.

Thom Gunn

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

Ken Blanchard

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

Tony Kushner

One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Bertrand Russell, The Conquest o

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

Jefferson Davis

Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the mind, thoughts of the spirit? Or hunted dawn from the bow of a canoe? These weren't the things that drove society, but she felt they shouldn't be treated as unimportant. They made living worthwhile.

Nicholas Sparks

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Vince Lombardi

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Miguel de Cervantes

I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.

J. J. Abrams

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done, so now Ijust have to fill in the rest.

Steven Wright