A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Helen Keller, Let Us Have Faith,

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Elbert Hubbard

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you're grateful.

Paul Theroux

You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.

Ben Vereen

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

Woody Allen

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Ambrose Bierce

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound...

Jane Austen

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.

Maurice Sendak

One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money.

David R. Ellis