Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

When I do good, I feel good when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. It's only the middle-aged who are really conscious of their limitations--that is why one should be so patient with them.

Saki [Hector Hugh Munro]

I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.

Sergei Bubka

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joseph Joubert

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

Edward W. Howe

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Lord Chesterfield

Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it.

Chaim Potok

Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: I made some mistakes, but I wasn't a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do.

Paulo Coelho

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

John Ciardi

We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

Mary Roach

When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.

Terri Clark

Politics is not an exact science.

Otto von Bismarck