I had the feeling she was going to say something big. One of us had to say it. What happened to us? Where are we going? It was like this silence between us was frozen and we were both feeling our way around it. How is it that two people can need each other so absolutely and then, in moments, not even know how to be next to each other and just be quiet?

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

Ty Cobb

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Viktor E. Frankl

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.

Bertrand Russell

The original Mickey Mouse cartoon was in Mouse, with Englishsubtitles.

Steven Wright

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

W. S. Gilbert

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

St. Simon

Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.

Napoleon Hill

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.

Jim Elliot

Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.

Carl Gustav Jung

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

Baltasar Gracian

Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans -- the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.

Susan Sontag

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

Bernard Mandeville