There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit, and hit with power.

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

Friedrich August von Hayek

The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.

Samuel Johnson

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

John Keats

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

Lawrence Durrell

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

Josiah G. Holland

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

George Santayana

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting

William Randolph

Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.

Felix Baumgartner

There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Toni Morrison

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Laurence J. Peter

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

Samuel Goldwyn

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.

Jackson Browne