There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Ambrose Bierce

This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.

Eric Allman

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Thomas Wolfe

The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-heap and a soul roasting in hell

Henry Louis Mencken

I've always had an affinity and a passion for cars and that whole car culture.

Ludacris

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Henry Ward Beecher

The way you live your day is a sentence in the story of your life. Each day you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.

Steve Maraboli

She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.

David Gest

Though I'm vegan and advocate that others eat a plant-based diet, I know that many people aren't quite ready to take that step in whole.

Kathy Freston

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

V. S. Pritchett

Passion is what adds so much value to life. And if you think about the things that you do, there's so much juice potential for them if you do it.

Mario Batali