I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away.

Under an accumulation of staggerers, no man can be considered a free agent. No man knocks himself down; if his destiny knocks him down, his destiny must pick him up again.

Charles Dickens

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

Ricky Williams

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.

Sidney Blumenthal

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

John Powell

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

Stephen King

In idleness there is a perpetual despair

Thomas Carlyle

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

Eminem

A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

W. Somerset Maugham

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

Mark Twain

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

Chuck Palahniuk

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

Edward Hoagland