I hate Christmas, really. I don't really give presents away or expect any.

No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.

Xenophanes

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.

Hans Eysenck

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

Gertrude Stein

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

V. S. Naipaul

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

Charlemagne

When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning.

Bruce Hornsby

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

Jane Addams

Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.

Lea Seydoux

So now, cut to ten years later, and I'm making this amazing contract with Pantene. It's incredible.

Maria Menounos

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Abraham Lincoln

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

Victor Hugo

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.

Jacob Hacker