If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. -Katharine Hepburn.

Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.

Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?

A billion here and a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.

Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597 Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 1. the ministry of holding one's tongue Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words... Thus it must be a decisive rule of every Christian fellowship that each individual is prohibited from saying much that occurs to him. This prohibition does not include the personal word of advice and guidance. But to speak about a brother is forbidden, even under the cloak of help and goodwill; for it is precisely in this guise that the spirit of hatred among brothers creeps in when it is seeking to create mischief.

No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand.

Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous. It is often the one blot on an otherwise noble character. You know men who are all but perfect, and women who would be entirely perfect, but for an easily ruffled, quick-tempered, or "touchy" disposition. This compatibility of ill temper with high moral character is one of the strangest and saddest problems of ethics... No form of vice -- not worldliness, not greed of gold, not drunkenness itself -- does more to unChristianize society than evil temper. For embittering life, for breaking up communities, for destroying the most sacred relationships, for devastating homes, for withering up men and women, for taking the bloom off of childhood -- in short, for sheer, gratuitous misery-producing power -- this influence stands alone.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost? 'Tis better to have fought and lost That never to have fought at all!

The Good are better made by Ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.

Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished.

Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.