I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

Oprah Winfrey

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Charles Caleb Colton

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

Alex Grey

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

Lascelles Abercrombie

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Thomas Hobbes

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise.

Lewis Thomas

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

Marilyn Monroe

Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.

Ralph Charell

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.

Mark Twain

Ask yourself, If I had only sixty seconds on the stage, what would I absolutely have to say to get my message across.

Jeff Dewar