I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Russell Baker

Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.

Mortimer Adler

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

Louisa May Alcott

Swans sing before they die -- t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

Peter Matthiessen

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life

Plato

Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are prefabricated in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.

David Lodge, The State of the La

A wrong turn doesn't end the journey. If you feel lost, just look at your map and get back on the road. The map will always lead you in the right direction.

Steve Maraboli

I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?

Jenny McCarthy

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

Owen D. Young

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Khalil Gibran

I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.

Michael D. Higgins