The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Al Bernstein

I don't play small. You have to go out and play with what you have. I admit I used to want to be tall. But I made it in high school, college, and now the pros. So it doesn't matter.

Spud Webb

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Beverley Nichols

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Stephen King

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

Henry Miller

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.

Vincent Van Gogh

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

Julian Assange

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

Al Capp

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Mahatma Gandhi

Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.

Cecelia Ahern

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Joseph Addison