I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Thomas Carlyle

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

Charles Darwin

Anger is short madness

Horace

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

Bill Gates

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.

Liz Smith

adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

Ambrose Bierce

Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?

Charles L. Allen

God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees

Benjamin Franklin

The Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race that could last not two miles, not two hours, but two full days. According to the Mexican historian Francisco Almada, a Tarahumara champion once ran 435 miles, the equivalent of setting out for a jog in New York City and not stopping till you were closing in on Detroit.

Christopher McDougall

For this will cure him that is sick, and rouse him that is in dumps; one that has loved, it will remember of it; one that has not, it will instruct. For there was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can see. But help me that God to write the passions of others; and while I write, keep me in my own right wits.

Longus

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

Dan Savage