When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.

I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.

James Ellroy

Circumstances rule men men do not rule circumstances.

Herodotus

Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.

Marquis de Sade

Life is too short no matter what party you are with.

Scott Baio

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

Clive Bell

There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.

Richard Livingstone, On Educatio

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

Michael Joseph Oakeshott

I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.

Sue Wicks

There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.

Blaise Pascal

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.

Joan Rivers

May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

Zebulon Pike

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Fred A. Allen