In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.

Proverb

History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a page in the daily press without learning the specific time, place, and name of evil. But perhaps the most pervasive evil of all rarely appears in the news. This evil, the waste of human potential, is particularly painful to recognize for it strikes our parents and children, our friends and brothers, ourselves.

George Leonard

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

Ivor Novello

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

George V. Higgins

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

William Shakespeare

'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.

Deborah Norville

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

Steve Jobs

Good things happen when you meet strangers.

Yo-Yo Ma

It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.

Pope Gregory VII

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

Walter Scott

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

Mark Twain

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.

Marilyn Manson