Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.

Benjamin Franklin

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Napoleon Hill

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

Walter Mosley

Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

Love is a durable fire in the mind ever burning; never sick, never old, never dead from itself never turning.

Walter Raleigh, Sr.

If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Bible

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.

Kevin Costner

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

Joseph Rotblat

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

Natalie Wood

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre

Samuel Johnson

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Henry Miller