I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

There is no proof great enough to prevent doubt. Ir you base your belief on proof, sooner or later you will sink!

Michael Card

If you are planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in the negotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

Marvin S. Levin

In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

C.S. Lewis

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.

Jo Nesbo

Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female.

Katy Perry

The greatest help oft comes in harm's disguise, to those with trusting hearts and open eyes.

William D. Burt

...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..

John Geddes

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

Adolf Hitler

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

Alfred North Whitehead

To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal.

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Bertolt Brecht