To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.

Antony Sher

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.

Mark Twain

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.

Robert Hewison

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Thornton Wilder

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

Bono

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

Source Unknown

I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

Liam Neeson

An accent mark, perhaps, instead of a whole western accent -- a point of punctuation rather than a uniform twang. That is how it should be worn: as a quiet point of character reference, an apt phrase of sartorial allusion -- macho, sotto voce.

Phil Patton

Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.

Sandra Lee

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Ralph Waldo Emerson