I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Thomas Carlyle

Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Christopher Hitchens

The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.

John Podhoretz

It will always be the ball and me.

Tiger Woods

It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.

Jean Paul Sartre

There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.

Gary Bauer

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudius Claudianus

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

Taylor Caldwell

I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to weddings, though I'm fond of using them as year-round home decor. There's a reason why they're sometimes called fairy lights. When the night is right, there aren't any strings at all.

Erin Morgenstern

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Edward Hopper

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

Robert A. Heinlein

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

F. Scott Fitzgerald