Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

A. Owen Penny

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Isiah Thomas

The first missionaries, good men imbued with the narrowness of their age, branded us as pagans and devil-worshipers, and demanded of us that we abjure our false gods before bowing the knee at their sacred altar.

Charles Eastman

Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Ambrose Bierce

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

William S. Burroughs

Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.

David Attenborough

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, --for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it -- not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

Herman Melville

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Vincent Van Gogh

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

Dick Vermeil

I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time I'm thankful for her. All I know is that when I'm a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents.

Nikki Reed

Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.

Peter McWilliams