A mollusk is a cheap edition with a suppression of the costlier illustrations, designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an oyster-bank or among the seaweed.

Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.

Shaun White

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Baltasar Gracian

Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing force. That is organization -- the highly structured assemblage of men, and now some women, of which he is a part. It is to this, at the expense of family, friends, sex, recreation and sometimes health and effective control of alcoholic intake, that he is expected to devote his energies.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I am not a member of any organized partyI am a Democrat.

Will Rogers

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

Abraham Lincoln

Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled

Mark Twain

Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!

Nathan Hale

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

Steven Pressfield

The artist in me cries out for design.

Robert Frost

I don't know why women feel an affinity with me.

Jennifer Aniston

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Ben Hecht