There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

E. M. Forster

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

Thomas Gray

The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.

Paul Goodman

My mom is in her mid-60s and has more energy and is more youthful than any human being I know. It's pretty incredible.

Oliver Hudson

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

Edwin P. Whipple

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

George Steiner, Real Presences,

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Alva Edison

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

Kary Mullis

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

Bret Harte

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Benjamin Franklin

Time is my greatest enemy.

Evita Peron