Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.''Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired.

Cassandra Clare

In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design.

G. W. F. Hegel

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Jr. Murchison

We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.

Carl Sagan

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.

Andre Maurois

There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I'm not preoccupied with the opinions of others.

Conrad Black

Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.

Jeff Bezos

Listen, buddy, if I could tell you in a minute what I did, it wouldn't be worth the Nobel Prize.

Richard Feynman, Joking when ask

No nation, no matter how enlightened, can endure criminal violence. If we cannot control it, we are admitting to the world and to ourselves that our laws are no more than a facade that crumbles when the winds of crisis rise.

Alan Biole

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Abraham Lincoln

Humor is healing.

Brad Garrett