To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

An unsanctified temper is a fruitful source of error, and a mighty impediment to truth.

Elias Lyman Magoon

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Merry Browne

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Barbara de Angelis

Maybe some things aren't meant to be known. maybe there just meant to be accepted.

Wendy Mass

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.

Ralph W. Sockman

Doing science, particularly the synthesis of disparate ideas, is not as arcane as it is often made out to be. Discipline and taste play a vital role, but the activity is familiar to anyone who has made some effort to be creative.

John Henry Holland

I love being a dad. I'd have more kids if I could. I'd take a couple more, one or two more before I croak.

Richie Sambora

You can't do four movies and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with a different wig and then be going to sing on Broadway without feeling a little tired. You endlessly feel you're letting somebody down.

Sarah Jessica Parker

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

Lord Chesterfield

It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.

Sherrill Brown

People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.

Michael Haneke

Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

George Santayana, Egotism in Ger