Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.

Oscar Wilde

Did we not aid the grisly Taliban to achieve and hold power? Yes indeed 'we' did. Well, does that not double or triple our responsibility to remove them from power?

Christopher Hitchens

Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.

Mickey Kaus

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

J. B. Priestley

I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.

Emile Hirsch

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

Irwin Edman

Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?

Dean Kamen

Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.

Randy Pausch

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

Ernest Hemingway

I'm so an all-or-nothing person in dating, always. I'm big on not wasting time. And so, yeah, if something's not working, it's time to not hold people back.

Ginnifer Goodwin

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product it's an understanding of human nature.

Ai Weiwei