Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.

Men hate more steadily than they love; and if I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him

Samuel Johnson

Indolence is sweet, and its consequence bitter.

Voltaire

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

Peter Marshall

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped

Oscar Wilde

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

Matthew Modine

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

Susan B. Anthony

It's so damn hard to bloom... to change. Even when you want to change, want it more than anything in the world, it's hard. Desire to change isn't enough. Or desperation. Couldn't be done without...love,

Dean Koontz

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.

Mark Twain

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.

Paula Poundstone

I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.'

Robert Rodriguez