If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.

Dee Dee Myers

People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans they have to be self-reliant.

Scott Cook

One should always cite what one does not understand at all in the language one understands the least.

Voltaire

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

Dogen

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

Larry Wall

To her-Hand in hand we comeChristopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap.Say you're surprised?Say you like it?Say it's just what you wanted?Because it's yours-because we love you.

A.A. Milne

And thus I clothe my naked villanyWith odd old ends stolen out of holy writ;And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

William Shakespeare

I was saying yes because when you're in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you're in love, you want to take every single one of them.

Danny Wallace

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Ramana Maharshi

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

Stephen King

Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It's the opposite of anything that I believe in. And I don't like at work where you stop everything to sing 'Happy Birthday' to someone. I feel like that's for children.

Mindy Kaling

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

Benjamin Franklin