What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.

Ralph Ellison

You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'the serpent saying to Eve

George Bernard Shaw, Back to Met

Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!

Max Schmelling

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Samuel Butler

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.

Paul Theroux

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.

Mario Batali

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

Christopher Lasch

Kindness begins in the heart of a willing mind.

D. A. MC Bride

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

Doug Coupland

I would venture to guess that if I was a construction worker... who requested a transfer to another department for the betterment of his family, I would be commended for it. But because it's sports, there's just so much passion added to it.

Derek Fisher

They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.

Thomas Jefferson

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

Henny Youngman