That's the pleasure and challenge of reading great novels; you get to see yourself as others see you and you get to see others as they see themselves.

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

Karl Kraus

I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.

Ernie Harwell

One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that's all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.

Nick Carter

Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.

Roy Acuff

The first duty of an Author is --- I conceive --- a faithful allegiance to Truth and Nature; his second, such a conscientious study of Art as shall enable him to interpret eloquently and effectively the oracles delivered by those two great deities.--- Charlotte Bronte

Juliet Barker

Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.

Richard P. Feynman

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.

Beatrice Webb

Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.

Kovacs

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

Walter F. Mondale

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.

Steven Wright

You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.

Ron Chernow

The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.

Harriet Beecher Stowe