Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.

Ron White

I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own).

George Saunders

Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.

Bill Bryson

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life

Jane Austen

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.

Ben Hecht

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi

There's a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough-hew them how we will.

William Shakespeare

Music can affect for good or ill the body as well as the mind.

Tomas Luis de Victoria

A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic.

Wendelin Van Draanen

A half truth is a whole lie.

Yiddish Proverb

Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.

Hugo Gernsback