It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Man shapes himself through decision that shape his environment.

Ren

I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly prove that you're a normal, cool person.

Amanda Bynes

The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island. In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.

J. M. Synge

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Benjamin Franklin

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Aristotle

It's okay to wander.

Tony Dungy

I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.

James A. Garfield

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

Anthony Trollope

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

Burt Bacharach

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Yogi Berra

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

Manuel Puig