Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

C.S. Lewis

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

George Bernard Shaw

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

Christopher Hitchens

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

Source Unknown

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

Doug Coupland

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....

C.S. Lewis, attributed

People love to say we get paid a lot of money to play a game, but it stopped being a game when you start getting paid.

Curt Schilling

I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.

Bobby Flay

Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Thomas Jefferson

Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose.

Source Unknown

The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.

Sir Isaac Newton

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

Jet Li