Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this--one dog does not change a bone with another.

Those who dance are thought mad by those who do not hear the music.

Anon.

Prevention is better than cure.

Desiderius Erasmus

Under an accumulation of staggerers, no man can be considered a free agent. No man knocks himself down; if his destiny knocks him down, his destiny must pick him up again.

Charles Dickens

We are raised to believe (on the surface, at least) that us humans only have so much love to give, and that it comes in a standard round unit: one. After all, we associate love with the heart, and, well, you've either got a whole heart, or you're dead, period. You can't, common wisdom goes, just run around dividing that one heart up freely; to claim to do so means that you're either a fool, or you're dividing up something that is dead.

Anthony Ravenscroft

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

Walt Whitman

When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.

Karen Armstrong

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

Richard G. Scott

Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I was happy in the dream; but when I woke up it was with a feeling that I was falling apart, that I was cracking up from the inside and slowly falling to pieces. My heart was jumping and grating like a cold engine that doesn't want to start. My skin was crawling, and I couldn't manage a single clear thought. It was as if all my thoughts were crushed to bits just as they began to take shape. I didn't get much done that day.

Ninni Holmqvist

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Boris Sokoloff

She was so fat that when I hit her with my car she asked why I didn't go around her and I said that I didn't think I had enough gas.

Rodney Dangerfield

I would say the most significant difference between modern-era receivers and previous receivers is the ones who were in my generation or earlier had to get a job after they got through playing. Today's player doesn't.

Steve Largent, March 16, 2004