To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Thomas Carlyle

I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.

Gregg Easterbrook

There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.

Alison Lurie

Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.

Karen Armstrong

Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.

Ivor Novello

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Martin Luther King Jr.

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

Jeremy Collier

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Josh Billings

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

Willie Nelson

Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.

Tiger Woods

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.

Prem Rawat

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.

Rickie Lee Jones