To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

no disease suffered by a live man can be known, for every living person has his own peculiarities and always has his own peculiar, personal, novel, complicated disease, unknown to medicine -- not a disease of the lungs, liver, skin, heart, nerves, and so on mentioned in medical books, but a disease consisting of one of the innumerable combinations of the maladies of those organs. This simple thought could not occur to the doctors (as it cannot occur to a wizard that he is unable to work his charms) because the business of their lives was to cure, and they received money for it and had spent the best years of their lives on that business. But above all that thought was kept out of their minds by the fact that they saw they were really useful [...] Their usefulness did not depend on making the patient swallow substances for the most part harmful (the harm was scarcely perceptible because they were given in small doses) but they were useful, necessary, and indispensable because they satisfied a mental need of the invalid and those who loved her -- and that is why there are, and always will be, pseudo-healers, wise women, homoeopaths, and allopaths. They satisfied that eternal human need for hope of relief, for sympathy, and that something should be done, which is felt by those who are suffering.

Leo Tolstoy

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Humphry Davy

Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.

Proverb

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Napoleon Hill

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

George Bernard Shaw

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.

Joyce Grenfell

YOU KNOW WHAT!!! You are educated stupid as teachers lack intelligence. Truth is Cubic. Time is Cubic... Life is Cubic.... Form is Cubic.. Family is Cubic.. Village is Cubic.. Evil is cubeless. Self is cubeless. God is cubeless. Language is a human invention of an evil cubeless singularity.

Gene Ray

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

Henry Miller

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age

Friedrich Nietzsche

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.

Patti Davis

The basis of effective government if public confidence.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams.

Josh Charles