Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

Paul Gallico

Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective human destiny. Our deepest urge is always toward life, to wholeness and well being.

Claire Fontaine

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

Michael Crichton

All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above medesigns synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats. The lady acrossthe hall tried to rob a department store... With a pricinggun... She said, Give me all of the money in the vault, or I'mmarking down everything in the store.

Steven Wright

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

Pat Boone

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

Octavia Butler

Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

Maxwell Maltz

Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.

Anton Chekhov

No nation, no matter how enlightened, can endure criminal violence. If we cannot control it, we are admitting to the world and to ourselves that our laws are no more than a facade that crumbles when the winds of crisis rise.

Alan Biole

Gravity always wins

Michael Hirsch

I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.

Joan Benoit Samuelson