And what is literature but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the Universe but a few molecules who have a disease called 'thought'.

A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.

Jack Benny

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

Jane Austen

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

Margaret Thatcher

We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.

Theodore C. Sorensen

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

Albert Einstein

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Vincent Van Gogh

A man who has no office to go to -- I don't care who he is -- is a trial of which you can have no conception.

George Bernard Shaw

The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence. It can only be understood as a self-contradiction, made possible by the fact of his freedom but not following necessarily from it.

Reinhold Niebuhr, The Nature and

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

William Cowper

The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.

Ben Herbster

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

James Joyce

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

Marilyn vos Savant