Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.

Mason Cooley

Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Ambrose Bierce

Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him

Jeremy Aldana

Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.

Stephen Covey

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Marcus Aurelius

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

Henry Ward Beecher

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...

Brian Greene

For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.

Jack Klugman

For years, I never knowingly went on a holiday. When I travelled, it was for work. Now I am a huge advocate, particularly to places which have amazing wildlife, such as Antarctica, India and Patagonia.

Miranda Richardson

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.

Kevin Spacey

When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

Oliver North

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Midge Decter