There is only one thing I wast to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think a mistake has been made of recent years in Ohio in failing to continue as our representatives the same people term after term. I do not need to tell a Washington audience, among whom there are certainly some who have been interested in legislation, that length of service in the House and in the Senate is what gives influence.

There is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon if you practice.

Patty Berg

Readers of the twenty-first chapter must decide for themselves whether it enhances the book they presumably know or is really a discardable limb. I meant the book to end in this way, but my aesthetic judgement may have been faulty. Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics. 'Quod scripsi scripsi' said Pontius Pilate when he made Jesus Christ the King of the Jews. 'What I have written I have Written.' We can destroy what we have written but we cannot unwrite it. I leave what I wrote with what Dr. Johnson called frigid indifference to the judgement of that .00000001 of the American population which cares about such things. Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.

Anthony Burgess, November, 1986

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.

Kevin Bacon

People need not fear the unknown if they have a capable of achieving what they need and what

Paulo Coelho

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.

Bram Stoker

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

Annie Dillard

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Man is to be understood only in his relation to God.

C.S. Lewis

The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.

Simon Sinek

Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.

Terry Pratchett

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. -- The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

Ludwig Wittgenstein