I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

Jim Valvano

Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.

Jim Lehrer

You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.

Imogen Cunningham

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

Terry Pratchett

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Benjamin Franklin

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

Aristotle

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

Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first !

Sydney Sheldon

But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.

Michael Hutchence

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Abraham Cowley

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

John Locke