Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive

We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are.

Carl Sagan

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.

Dusty Baker

Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A merry Christmas to everybody A happy New Year to all the world

Charles Dickens

Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.

Jimmy Dean

I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.

Jason Reitman

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

Julie Taymor

Poetry is life distilled.

Gwendolyn Brooks

I think guitar is the best thing in the world.

Shaun White

The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.

Joseph Ratzinger

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.

David Russell