Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

Mark Twain

Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

Jack Lemmon

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

Samuel Johnson

Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep: it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; 'tis meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. 'Tis the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise-man even. There is only one thing...that I dislike in sleep; 'tis that it resembles death; there's very little difference between a man in his first sleep, and a man in his last sleep.

Miguel de Cervantes

I went for a walk last night and she asked me how long I was going to be gone. I said, 'The whole time.

Steven Wright

It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it.

David Deutsch

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Ovid

I personally think you can have a really rich and full life with no abs. Abs are for wimps.

Rachel McAdams

I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.

Paul Keating

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.

Frank Ocean

I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.

Arlen Specter