Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

Jodi Picoult

You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies we do.

Dougray Scott

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Tom Robbins

This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him.

Richard M. Helms

Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.

O. J. Simpson

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Thomas Fuller

Religion is the opium of the poor

Ernest Hemingway

My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club.

Sergei Bubka

While parchment may burn and gold may be stained or melted down, the things that are truly important to us will never lose their value.

Evan Meekins

She thought of Henry and Diana on the stoop gazing at each other with the confusion and sadness of two puppies who have just stumbled into their first puddle and not yet come to understand what has happened to them and found that she wanted to lie extravagantly.

Anna Godbersen