No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know.

Lennart Nilsson

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

Michael Caine

Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.

H. G. Wells

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Honore de Balzac

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.

Elbert Hubbard

Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.

Khaled Hosseini

Our recent decisions make plain that we do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation nor to decide whether the policy which it expresses offends the public welfare.

William O Douglas

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Dorothy L. Sayers

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

You know what I want in a woman, Paul? What's that? A friend. A true friend; someone who knows me and loves me anyway. You know, like when I'm through putting my best foot forward, she's still there, still the same.

Don Miller

To me Americanism means an imperative duty to be nobler than the rest of the world.

Meyer London