Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.

E. W. Howe

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

Corita Kent

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Bertrand Russell

But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill; it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing rule that we all recognize is: always sit close to an exit and never trust a man who doesn't sweat.

Hunter S. Thompson, Songs Of The

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.

Fatty Arbuckle

The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.

Neil Kinnock

It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.

Caroline Kennedy

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.

Katherine Anne Porter

You start losing a client the moment you get it.

Jay Chiat

On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War, General von Falkenhayn, We must not worry about committing an offence against the rights of nations nor about violating the laws of humanity. Such feelings today are of secondary importance? A month later, on October 21, 1914, he wrote in Der Tag, If a way was found of entirely wiping out the whole of London it would be more humane to employ it than to allow the blood of A SINGLE GERMAN SOLDIER to be shed on the battlefield!

Georges Clemenceau

Pick a sunset, and we'll ride off into it together.

Timothy M. Brenner