A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Shelley Winters

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.

James C. Maxwell

My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.

Dennis Wilson

I felt like I was seeing Shannon through a new lens, undistracted by Jennifer's nuclear glow. I could see how pretty she really was, how kind her eyes were.

Kenneth Oppel

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write, but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

Will Rogers

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

Karl Von Clausewitz

Last, I would like to thank the dogs, not just the Vick pack, but all of them, simply for being dogs, which is to say, tolerant and perseverant; willing to connect with a world that does not always return their affection; and for proving, time and again, that life, while messy, difficult, and imperfect, has the capacity to exceed our expectations and feed our undying hope.

Jim Gorant

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Isaac Newton

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

Albert Schweitzer

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

Regina King

If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.

Evelyn Waugh