No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

I think my dad is a lot cooler than other dads. He still acts like he's still 17.

Miley Cyrus

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

C. S. Lewis

Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise.

William Shakespeare

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

Leo Tolstoy

Be the one, be worthy.

Elsie Chapman

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsk

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Dr. Seuss

I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!

Mindy Kaling

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?

Kinky Friedman

In separateness only does love learn definition.

Robert Penn Warren

Ojalá te encuentre por aquí, en alguna calle del sueño. Es una gran alegría ésta de aprisionarte con mis párpados al dormir.

Jaime Sabines

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

Robert A. Heinlein