A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures...

It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.

Stephen King

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

James Stockdale

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.

Max Beerbohm, Quia Imperfection

The world is waiting ... for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love of God that they are free to imagine a new international order.

Henri Nouwen

You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?

Alfred Jarry

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing more real than this, nothing more terrible. Be we as heroic as we like, that is the end which awaits the noblest life in the world. Let us reflect on this and then say whether it is not beyond doubt that there is no good in this life

Blaise Pascal

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

Martin Scorsese

Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.

Angela Merkel

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable generally, though, I think I am.

John Mayer

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland --and no other.

E. M. Cioran