There is only one rule to become a good talker, learn how to listen.

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

Eddie Van Halen

The reason of this separation has not come to our knowledge; but there seems to be a truth conveyed in the account of another Roman's being divorced from his wife, which may be applicable here. This person being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, Was she not chaste? was she not fair? was she not fruitful? holding out his shoe, asked them, Whether it was not new? and well made? Yet, added he, none of you can tell where it pinches me.

Plutarch, AEMILIUS PAULUS transl

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

Will Rogers

In politics you learn to always smile.

Eliot Spitzer

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Diogenes of Sinope

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

Gunter Grass

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Gerald Stanley Lee

Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.

J.K. Rowling

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Thomas Henry Huxley

We can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

Dylan Thomas, Letter, 1936; publ

As a doctor, when I was minister of health and would go somewhere, little girls would come up to me and say, 'I want to be like you one day, I want to be a doctor.' Now, they tell me, 'I want to be president just like you.' All of us can dream as big as we want.

Michelle Bachelet

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

Charles Dickens