Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all

Henry David Thoreau

What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

David O. McKay

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.

Elizabeth Edwards

I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.

Ice Cube

He who knows others is wise.He who knows himself is enlightened.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face.

Bill Bryson

I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.

Peter Garrett

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Abdul Kalam

People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.

Francis Ford Coppola

Should he ever write an autobiography, he'd call it The Life and Death of a Male Body.

Philip Roth

I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.

Merlin Olsen

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Herbert A. Otto