The world is full of willing people some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding.

Wil Wheaton

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

Alan Shepard

They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill

At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with 'Off The Wall.'

Rob Sheffield

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.

John Hay

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.'

Jane Asher

We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or truth or what's happening.

John Kerry

Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself.

Anon.

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called scientific mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.

Cynthia Ozick

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Epictetus

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

Edith Wharton