For me, writing is immortality. It is wisdom. It is never-ending.

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.

Horatio Alger

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

Bob Marley

The only privilege literature deserves -- and this privilege it requires in order to exist -- is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.

Salman Rushdie

Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.

Paul Davies

ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.

Drew Curtis

Come, pluck up a good heart; speak the truth and shame the devil.

François Rabelais

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Edmund Burke

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

Martin Sheen

I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.

Andrew Motion

He calls me desperate (on my tombstone)I hope poetic license will allow: HUNGRY

Eli Coppola

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

Black Elk

The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.

Terry Pratchett