When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled wrong.

Raymond Smullyan

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

Mary Baker Eddy

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Mark Zuckerberg

You have to wake up a virgin each morning.

Jean-Louis Barrault

I guess something that you love to do, you gotta ease up off it and give it a little space, come back and be fresh to it.

Mos Def

When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

William Shakespeare

The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.

Horace

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

Bernie Taupin

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

Thomas A. Edison

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

General Douglas MacArthur

When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

Linda Hunt

Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

Robin Leach