Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Ronald Reagan

The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.

Michael Mandelbaum

Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see, but only a few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are, and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

Zooey Deschanel

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

Lew Wallace

Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that into which the Sun goes down. He appears to migrate westward daily and tempt us to follow him. He is the Great Western Pioneer whom the nations follow. We dream all night of those mountain ridges in the horizon, though they may be of vapor only, which were last gilded by his rays.

Henry David Thoreau

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Henry Kissinger

It may look perfect, but that's one thing I have learned about life is that it isn't always what it looks.

Ann Romney

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Alfred Adler

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

William Osler

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Aristotle

I don't change. The things around me change.

Jeremy Renner