Necessity does everything well.

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

Simone Weil

You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes.

Margaret Drabble

There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry . It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

Jane Austen

Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.

Bill Toomey

For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.

Albert Einstein

What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.

James Sanborn

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Victor Frankl

I want Maggie Gyllenhaal. I don't know why. I don't think she necessarily looks like me or acts like me, I just think she's a cool actress and she could play me, so there you go.

Diablo Cody

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

Rudyard Kipling

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

Isabel Allende

Be not sick too late, nor well too soon

Benjamin Franklin