The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

Horace

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

Muhammad Ali

Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong.

Kevis Hendrickson

Like all children they only wanted to be known, and cared little about giving that gift to others.

Orson Scott Card

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.

Criss Jami

We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.

Thornton Wilder

I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.

Daniel Ek

I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.

River Phoenix

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

David Hume

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Sir Winston Churchill

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Roland Barthes