We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Love me in actions, not in words.

Dee Dee M. Scott

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.

Leo Tolstoy

It's all about having fun and smiling and shaking hands.

Tone Loc

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.

Dean Smith

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'

Igor Stravinsky, "London Magazin

Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.

Ezra Pound

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

Ruth Hubbard

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

Will Rogers

Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.

Esther Dyson

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Anita Brookner

It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

Oprah Winfrey