There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.

Bruce Catton

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.

Michael Ondaatje

I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.

Jeff Foxworthy

Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

Source Unknown

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.

Jonathan Shapiro

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.

David Byrne

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself: That is not what I meant by freedom -- it is only social progress.

Helene Deutsch

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

Floyd Abrams

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

George Washington

The sun got confused about day

Steven Wright

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

Vance Havner

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

L. Ron Hubbard