Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

George Granville

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

Thomas Szasz

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

William James

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.

Michael Crichton

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

Adam Smith

We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.

Paulo Coelho

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

George Eliot

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whensoever hostile aggressions...require a resort to war, we must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.

Thomas Jefferson

Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

G. K. Chesterton

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

Finley Peter Dunne

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

Dolly Parton