I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

Clint Eastwood

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

Philip Roth

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

Sir John Denham

Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts? Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.

Mark Twain

If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.

Richard Petty

Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

Mark Twain

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.

Keith Henson

My insides turn outward in acknowledgement of your absence. My heart slips out of my chest and down into my gut.

Coco J. Ginger

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Jane Austen

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Harold MacMillan

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.another phrasing: If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)