Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

Peter Ustinov

As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder.

Mitch Daniels

Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different from and superior to all human beliefs that are not scientific statements--and this is untrue.

Richard Rhodes

It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight.

Helena Christensen

The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.

George Santayana

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Charles Caleb Colton

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

Walter Gilbert

Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.

Neil Gaiman

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyerthinks he can get me five.

Steven Wright

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

Vincent Van Gogh

God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

George Sand

You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.

Cassandra Clare