Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

George Henry Lewes

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

Henry Walter Bates

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman it would be, I think, an American cow.

William Lyon Phelps

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

Stendhal

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

Plato

I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world.I was drunk with it, with the scent of her. I'd got too close.The smell of summer on her skin, the half-recalled cadence of her voice, the sensation of her fingers on my fur. Every bit of me sang with the memory of her closeness.Too close.I couldn't stay away.

Maggie Stiefvater

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Albert Einstein

One fails forward toward success.

Charles Kettering

Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.

Ihab Hassan

She smiled smugly. We came to an agreement, the duck and I.

Cassandra Clare

The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering.

Paul Ryan