"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
- Oscar Wilde

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
- Douglas Adams

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
- Leo Tolstoy

"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll

"Everyone is a creature as well as a creator of his culture - imprisoned by his available idiom even as he seeks to use it as a tool for mastery."
- T.J. Jackson Lears (historian)

"Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
- Mark Twain

"If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x; y is play; and z is knowing when to keep your mouth shut."
- Albert Einstein, Observer, Jan. 15, 1950

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men.
True nobility is being superior to your former self."
- Tchocky

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
- Dalai Lama

Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
- Alfred Hitchcock

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
- Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
- Ronald Reagan

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
- Douglas Adams