I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

Mark Twain

If we stay with animal analogies for a moment, owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are god. (Cats may sometimes share the cold entrails of a kill with you, but this is just what a god might do if he was in a good mood.)

Christopher Hitchens

Other people

Les Brown

Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

Ralph Fiennes

Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

H. L. Mencken

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

Desiderius Erasmus

When mistrust comes in, love goes out.

Irish Sayings

I've never stopped learning.

Mick Taylor

No man rises so high as he knows not whither he goes.

Oliver Cromwell

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

Gene Tierney

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark. It is an attempt by each man to be as happy as possible. And each person could not begin from the same point, for the world has not just come into being; it is diverse and infinitely varied in its parts. The mere fact that one individual is necessarily born in a different place from someone else immediately insures that his inherited opportunity cannot be the same as his neighbor's. The drive for equality of opportunity would also require the abolition of the family since different parents have unequal abilities; it would require the communal rearing of children. The State would have to nationalize all babies and raise them in State nurseries under 'equal' conditions. But even here conditions cannot be the same, because different State officials will themselves have different abilities and personalities. And equality can never be achieved because of necessary differences of location.

Murray N. Rothbard