We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought.

It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.

Prescott Bush

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Lewis Grizzard

I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.

Conor Oberst

To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.

Georges Canguilhem

Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.

Margaret Atwood

People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves

Julian Barnes

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

W. Somerset Maugham

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Sir Alfred Jules Ayer

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?

Clyde Tombaugh

The facts of science, as they appeared to him, fed the flame in his soul, and in its light, he saw into the depths of the world.

Bertrand Russell

The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson