Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it

In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.

Benjamin Carson

Never say die.

Proverb

My girlfriend does her nails with whiteout. When she's asleep,I go over there and write misspelled words on them.

Steven Wright

My wife isn't very bright. The other day she was at the store and just as she was heading for our car, someone stole it! I said...did you see the guy that did it? She said ... No, but I got the license plate.

Rodney Dangerfield

What is the answer? Silence In that case, what is the question?

Gertrude Stein

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Ambrose Bierce

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

Charles de Lint

And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.

Marco Rubio

The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people.

Robert Frost

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

Chiaki Kuriyama

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

Herbert Read

They are all parts of time, and the past and future are created species of time, which we unconsciously but wrongly transfer to the eternal essence; for we say that he was, he is, he will be, but the truth is that is alone is properly attributed to him, and that was and will be only to be spoken of becoming in time, for they are motions, but that which is immovably the same cannot become older or younger by time, nor ever did or has become, or hereafter will be, older or younger, nor is subject at all to any of those states which affect moving and sensible things and of which generation is the cause. These are the forms of time, which imitates eternity and revolves according to a law of number. Moreover, when we say that what has become is become and what becomes is becoming, and that what will become is about to become and that the non-existent is non-existent-all these are inaccurate modes of expression...

Plato, Timaeus (Translated by Be