Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.

I am really, I think, truly an easygoing, positive, fun person.

Lisa Scottoline

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Galileo Galilei

Faith is never identical with piety.

Karl Barth

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Jane Austen

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.

Eric Alterman

When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them.

Jalal ad-Din Rumi

A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'

Daniel Goleman

A lot of things I am, and a lot of things I am not. But I think I'm about as good an American as there is. I love this country. It's been very, very good to me. And it will be good to anybody if they are willing to give of themselves.

Jimmy Dean

Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there.

Stephen Richards

I had a very special family life. My mother and father made sure when we were home, we were part of the family, not a TV star. And the other thing: my father was fully employed while I was doing the series.

Jerry Mathers

All would live long; but none would be old

Benjamin Franklin

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

Charles Lindbergh