People find life entirely too time-consuming.

There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for an appreciable length of time.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

The true science and study of man is man.

Pierre Charron

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.

Willard Gaylen

Chip did not believe in having a shock drawer or a T-shirt drawer. He believed that all drawers were created equal and each with whatever fit.

John Green

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

Vladimir Nabokov

Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.

Martin Luther

I have my best ideas when I am alone.

Leona Lewis

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Frederick Douglass

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

Harold Taylor

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm

George Eliot

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

Cathy McMorris