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All mankind loves a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Love and Hate

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Howard Aiken, in Success and Failure

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli, in Success and Failure

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion

We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!

Rudyard Kipling, in Success and Failure

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.

George Patton, in War and Peace and Work and Recreation

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

Russell Banks, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.

Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Science and Religion

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush, in War and Peace

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

Jacques Cousteau, in Life and Death

A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.

Dyer, in Work and Recreation

If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough.

Benjamin Franklin, in Life and Death

I've never met a healthy person who worried much about his health or a good person who worried much about his soul.

Haldane, in Health and Disease and Vice and Virtue

It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.

Frank Herbert, Dune, in Work and Recreation

Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.

Woody Allen, in Life and Death and Love and Hate

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht, in Success and Failure

It is impossible to love and be wise.

Francis Bacon, in Love and Hate

I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.

John Brown, in Vice and Virtue

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Carol Burnett, in Happiness and Misery