Representative Michael Capuano, to CEOs of the Big Three Automobile Manufacturers

My fear is that you're going to take this money and continue the same stupid decisions you've made for 25 years.

Mark Twain

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.

Jack Handey

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.

William Ockham

Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.

Joseph Addison

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Joan Didion

Perhaps the Las Vegas wedding industry achieved its peak operational efficiency between 9 p.m. and midnight of August 26, 1965, an otherwise unremarkable Thursday that happened to be, by presidential order, the last day on which anyone could improve his draft status merely by getting married.

Gilda Radner

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

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Sarah Palin

Someone called me a redneck woman once. You know what I said back? Thank-you very much.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Rene Descartes

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Winston Churchill

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Washington Irving

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal, every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open; this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

Henry John Kaiser

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Dogbert

I believe in karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it.

Arthur Rubinstein

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Source: Criminal Minds (Television)

Dr. Rhawn Joseph, Neuroscientist

Just as the living tree retains its early core, within each and every one of us, within the very core of our being is the Child that we once were. This Child is alive and constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be.

Source: Criminal Minds (Television)

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.

Unknown

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

David Ogilvy

Never Write an Advertisement Which You Wouldn't Want Your Own Family To Read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by.

Hans Christian Anderson

Everyman's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers

Leo Rosten

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

Anonymous

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

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I Take One Day At A Time UNLESS THEY ALL ATTACK AT ONCE

Zach Braff

I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.