If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

[I]n any profession the highest order of work is achieved, not by fussy empirical demands for 'something to be done,' but by patient study of the eternal laws.

Henry Whitehead

My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.

Omar Sharif

Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

Thomas J. Peters

Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one.

Theodore Roosevelt

Every day, the New York Times carries a motto in a box on its front page. All the News That's Fit to Print, it says. It's been saying it for decades, day in and day out. I imagine most readers of the canonical sheet have long ceased to notice this bannered and flaunted symbol of its mental furniture. I myself check every day to make sure that the bright, smug, pompous, idiotic claim is still there.

Christopher Hitchens

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Wayne Dyer

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

Benjamin Franklin

Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.

Matt Stone

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

Oscar Wilde

Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

William Wycherley

When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

Henry David Thoreau