Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Barry J. Farber

Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.

Ambrose Bierce

And I think if you look at any relationship, for the relationship to be productive and to move forward and to grow, sometimes things have to be said that one person or the other person is not going to like to hear.

Ricky Williams

The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.

Imamu Amiri Baraka Jones

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

Linda Ellerbee

Well I don't know because I don't have a real relationship with the industry.

Danny Glover

Home is pretty utopian.

Scott Adams

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

Marcus Aurelius

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Henry Adams

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Harold Pinter

Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and God made the rock and God gave us minds that have found ways to tell how old it is, we still choose to believe the Scripture.

Sheri S. Tepper

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.

Andre Maurois