It's a hard life if you don't weaken.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

Saul Bellow

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

Albert Einstein

Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.

Glenn Beck

One day as I came home early from work I saw a guy jogging naked. I said to the guy, Hey buddy . . . why are you doing that? He said, Because you came home early.

Rodney Dangerfield

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.

Dave Eggers

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.

Denis Waitley

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Jim Bishop

A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.

Ben Jonson

I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth.

Roone Arledge

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

George Bernard Shaw

Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that the music was inside him, not without: It was his own grief turned magically to song..

J.K. Rowling