So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.

In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force.

Charles Foster Bass

My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.

Carl Hiaasen

Change your life! Wake up and smell the Cosmic Ordering success.

Stephen Richards

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Honore de Balzac

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.

John Green

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

John McCarthy

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

Samuel Johnson

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

Kit Williams

One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

Jose Rizal

And oh she had been broken. She hid it well, but Ross knew from personal experience that once you had put the pieces together, even though you might look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall

Jodi Picoult

He who laughs most, learns best.

John Cleese

Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben.

Oscar Wilde