All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

William Osler

I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.

Reggie Watts

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty -- as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

Florence King

I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.

Victoria Justice

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

Steven Morrissey

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

Mary Astell

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

What is high finance? It?s knowing the difference between one and ten, multiplying, subtracting and adding. You just add noughts. It?s no more than that.

John Bentley

If we confuse dissent with disloyalty

Edward R. Murrow, Ford Fiftieth

My reason will still not understand why I pray, but I shall still pray, and my life, my whole life, independently of anything that may happen to me, is every moment of it no longer meaningless as it was before, but has an unquestionable meaning of goodness with which I have the power to invest it.

Leo Tolstoy

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.

Laurie Halse Anderson

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Samuel Johnson