As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees.

Boris Marshalov

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

Sarah Zettel

Walking is man's best medicine.

Hippocrates

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

Mark Twain

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Blaise Pascal

But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Don't ever pity me.

Simone Elkeles

It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.

John Saxe

I'm trying not to look too far ahead. All I'm thinking is one shot at a time, one hole at a time, and that's what I want to keep doing.

Michelle Mcgann

But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master -- something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame.

Charlotte Bronte