Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.

Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

John Mayer

You know the real trouble with Unix? The real trouble is that it became so popular. It wasn’t meant to be popular.

Donald A. Norman

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

Charles Caleb Colton

A baby is born into this world in a state of fear. Total paranoia and awareness. He sees the world with eyes not used yet. As he grows up, his parents lay all this stuff on him. They tell him, when they should be letting him tell them. Let the children lead you.

Charles Manson

Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.

Cameron Diaz

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows;

Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present

...but Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.

J.K. Rowling

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

Ray Comfort

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

Claude Bernard

There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.

Peter Davison

If you're a Christian you don't sit there and worry about what somebody else is doing, if they're happy and they're committed in a relationship.

Howard Stern

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

Ralph W. Sockman