A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Christopher Morley

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Jim Valvano

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

Albert Einstein

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

Charles Richter

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

Voltaire

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.

Philip Pullman

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Andrew Carnegie

I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.

Jillian Michaels

I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher

Projectile - n. the final arbiter in international disputes. Formerly these disputes were resolved by physical contact of the disputants with such arguments as the rudimentary logic of the times would supply - sword, spear, and so forth. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by all. Its capital defect ( in Bierce's day ) has been that it requires personal attendance at the point of launch.

Ambrose Bierce