All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.

Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.

Minna Antrim

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

George Sheehan

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'

Christopher Hitchens

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

Bruce Springsteen

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Simone de Beauvoir

Virtue is bold and goodness never fearful.

William Shakespeare

Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.

James Russell Lowell

It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.

Zig Ziglar

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.

Soren Kierkegaard

This wasn't a strange place; it was a new one.

Paolo Coehlo

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

Albert Einstein

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

George Santayana