Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.

Sloane Crosley

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Lillian Hellman, Watch on the Rh

Most literary men is obsessed with the idea that science has not fulfilled its promises. They do not, of course, tell us what these promises were. This is an entire delusion, fostered by those writers and clergymen who do not wish their specialties to be thought of little value.

Bertrand Russell

My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.

Greg Kinnear

The old general rule was that educated people did not perform manual labor. They managed to eat their bread, leaving the toil of producing it to the uneducated. This was not an insupportable evil to the working bees, so long as the class of drones remained very small. But now, especially in these free States, nearly all are educated--quite too nearly all, to leave the labor of the uneducated, in any wise adequate to the support of the whole. It follows from this that henceforth educated people must labor. Otherwise, education itself would become a positive and intolerable evil. No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

Abraham Lincoln, Address before

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Harold S. Geneen

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.

John W. Draper

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

Miguel de Icaza

The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.

Francie Larrieu Smith