I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do.

Jonathan Franzen

I'd like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.

Dee Dee Ramone

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

Elbert Hubbard

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

John Sununu

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

Christopher Hitchens

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Sid Caesar

True morality makes fun of morality.

Blaise Pascal

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

James Taylor

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve.

George Orwell

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Dale Carnegie

It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

Kate Smith

If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.

Levon Helm