Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.

Brennan Manning

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

Bill Watterson

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

Gilda Radner

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

Harriet Braiker

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

Harold Bloom

We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.

Stephen Harper

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

John Stuart Mill

When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey

Arab Proverb

I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

Ingmar Bergman

I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.

Earl Hines

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

William Congreve