The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Stephen Leacock

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Salman Rushdie

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along too.

Lawrence Bixby

I usually travel with a lot of people, like my dad, mom and sisters.

Booboo Stewart

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

H. L. Mencken

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten -- before the end is told -- even if there happens to be any end to it.

Joseph Conrad

My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.

Jack Kevorkian

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Albert Einstein

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

Alanis Morissette

Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.

James Reston

While Owen and Miles talk sports, I people watch. And this is what I see: teenagers trying to act like adults. Or how they think adults act. But mostly they look ridiculous, and I wonder what they don't want to do something that's more fun than drinking, smoking, flirting, and making out. Why are those activities considered to be fun?

Melody Carlson

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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