I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

James Payn

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

Rosalynn Carter

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Edward Young

...I've discovered why you fascinate - you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship...

John Geddes

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.

Terence

I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'

Demetri Martin

All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all of the things that you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did (or did not) do them. That's reality. That's happened. No changing the past.

Peter McWilliams

It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.

Christopher Shays

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

General George Catlett Marshall,

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

Hu Shih

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

Max Cannon

It's funny to be a critic.

Leslie Fiedler