Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

You always pass failure on your way to success.

Mickey Rooney

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Giordano Bruno

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

David Mamet

To all my friends, colleagues and family: I send you love. Please support me in my passage to a new life. I have no other way to thank you than this. You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.

Virginia Satir

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Jacques Derrida

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

Carl Sandburg

Let us ask ourselves; What kind of people do we think we are?

Ronald Reagan

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

James Boswell

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.

Tommy Lasorda

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

Bertrand Russell

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

Ernest Hemingway

Scrawny little mundane bastard.

Cassandra Clare