Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.

Jeffrey Kluger

It may be those who do most, dream most.

Stephen Leacock

I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.

Tanya Tucker

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

Alice Meynell

Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did. stanza 3The library was most inviting:The books upon the crowded shelvesWere mainly of our private writing:We kept a school and taught ourselves. stanza 15From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,Theres nothing worth the wear of winning,But laughter and the love of friends. stanza 22You do retain the song we set,And how it rises, trips and scans?You keep the sacred memory yet,Republicans? Republicans?stanza 36

Hilaire Belloc

God is only a great imaginative experience.

David Herbert Lawrence

The truth about life and lie about life is not measured by others but by your intuition, which never lies.

Santosh Kalwar

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Christian Nevell Bovee

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty

Samuel Johnson

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.

Bertrand Russell

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

J. Russel Lynes