A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

Marilyn Hacker

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

Jaron Lanier

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

Fred Allen

Religion is the opium of the poor

Ernest Hemingway

We are like a ship fastened to the shore. It floats on the water of the sea, but it does not leave its moorings; it merely bobs up and down. We are like a swimmer who prefers to walk rather than take to the water. O my God, sever these moorings, loosen the thread from the wings of my soul, plunge me into the sea.

Peter Julian Eymard, March 14, 1

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

Yogi Berra

Facts and not merely opinions are what we want. Emotionalism is not a substitute for the truth.

Joseph Lewis

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Barbara Bush

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.

General Douglas MacArthur

When you do what's important now for you, you create a past that leaves you ready to handle the present. By default, the future is taking care of itself as you make decisions that are acceptable to you no matter what happens tomorrow.

John Kuypers

There's more good music being made now than ever before.

David Byrne

My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.

Dominic Monaghan