Some people collect butterflies - I love beetles.

Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them.

Robert James Waller

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Samuel Johnson

I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.

Arsenio Hall

Growing up, I wish that I'd had the supplies and laptops and all the new technology that's out right now.

James Harden

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Arthur Conan Doyle

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Proverb

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

Buddy Hackett

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

Mahatma Gandhi

I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.

Virginia Woolf

There is no power like that of true oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears; Cicero, by captivating their affections and swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished with its author; that of the other continues to this day.

Henry Clay

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Sir Winston Churchill

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

John Johnson