Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Scott Alexander

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Josh Billings

Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous

Ambrose Bierce

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

Wayne Dyer

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

I know I will die in a car crash.

Katie Price

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.

James Gunn

My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one

Amy Plum

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Henry Ward Beecher

A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him, 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said, 'Well, 200 days.' And I was like, '200 days? Try 20!'

Tom Colicchio

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Charles Stanley

He can run. But he cant hide.

Joe E. Louis