Substantive abandonment of convention is evidence of mastery.

I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.

Craig Ferguson

There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

James Cameron

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.

Otto Dix

Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.

Ally Carter

To die is landing on some distant shore.

John Dryden

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Helen Rowland

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.

Sextus Propertius

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

Christian Lous Lange

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Bill Gates

He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.cited in The Essays of Montaigne http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/6/0/3600/3600.txt

Saint Augustine of Hippo, De Civ

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

Anne Hathaway

War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

Niccolo Machiavelli