As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

James Garfield

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

Andre Breton

Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.

Michael Chabon

Of course, I do everything for money.

Christopher Hitchens

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Judy Garland

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.

Daryl Hannah

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.

John Clayton

Jesus is Santa Claus for Adults

Christopher Hitchens

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Carolyn Heilbrun

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

Andrew Wyeth

I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do: but to a degree, I know it is the same with them all; they are all knocked about, and exposed to every climate, and every weather, till they are not fit to be seen. It is a pity they are not knocked on the head at once, before they reach Admiral Baldwin's age.

Jane Austen