Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right he'll go to the poor house.

We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.

Jesse Ventura

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

Frank Herbert

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.

George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial

What if, I never tire of asking, we said 'Secret Council' instead of the archaic and therefore cuddly 'Privy Council'?

Christopher Hitchens

But Death was cunning.

J.K. Rowling

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Henry Van Dyke

That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.

Willie Mays

She got out of the car in a smooth motion that found attractive precisely because it did not seem designed to make men watch her do it.

Orson Scott Card

Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.

Dwight D Eisenhower

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein