When I was young, I said to God, god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered, that knowledge is for me alone. So I said, god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said, well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.

Henry Miller

By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.

Mark Twain

During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.

Conan O'Brien

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

Gustav Mahler

Ignore what a man desires, and you ignore the very source of his power.

Walter Lippmann

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. If we could learn from mere experience, the stones of London would be wiser than its wisest men.

George Bernard Shaw

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

Walt Whitman

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.

Albert Einstein

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

H. P. Lovecraft

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.

Helen Mirren