I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before

Jane Austen

As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.

Daniel Morgan

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Diogenes

Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

Bernard Baruch

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don't know it.

James Lovelock

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

Alexander Hamilton

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Albert Camus

Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.

Ricky Williams

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.

C.S. Lewis

I enjoy sports in person.

Shania Twain

Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

Aldous Huxley