All things truly wicked start from innocence.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken

Samuel Johnson

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

Christopher Hitchens

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

David Hume

I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it.

Dianne Wiest

Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, No

Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.

Andrew Weil

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

Billy Corgan

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Johann von Goethe

I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes.

Elliot Richardson

There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, Anywhere but here.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Matt Biondi