I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

Bryant McGill

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Babe Ruth

He had dropped upon a seat halfway down the nave and, again in the museum mood, was trying with head thrown back and eyes aloft, to reconstitute a past, to reduce it in fact to the convenient terms of Victor Hugo, whom, a few days before, giving the rein for once in a way to the joy of life, he had purchased in seventy bound volumes, a miracle of cheapness, parted with, he was assured by the shopman, at the price of the red-and-gold alone. He looked, doubtless, while he played his eternal nippers over Gothic glooms, sufficiently rapt in reverence; but what his thought had finally bumped against was the question of where, among packed accumulations, so multiform a wedge would be able to enter..

Henry James, The Ambassadors, 19

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.

John C. Calhoun

But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before.

Mark Twain

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

George Harrison

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

Richard Roeper

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.

Helen Dunmore

Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.

Thomas Howard

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

Morrie Schwartz

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

David Mamet

The truth displayed in a good life is the fairest of images.

Halldór Laxness