Harper Lee

 So many writers don't like to write... I like to write, and sometimes I'm afraid I like it too much, because when I get into work, I don't want to leave it. And as a result, I'll go for days and days and days without leaving my house. 

- Harper Lee

Ayn Rand

 Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. 

- Ayn Rand

Anthony Hopkins

 I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone's religion or belief. 

- Anthony Hopkins

Errol Flynn

 Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure. 

- Errol Flynn

Isaac Newton

 In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence. 

- Isaac Newton

Betty White

 I don't seem to require a lot of sleep. I just - if I get four, five good hours, I'm fine. But sleeping is sort of dull. There's a lot of other good stuff that you can do without just lying down and closing your eyes. 

- Betty White

Julie Andrews

 Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. 

- Julie Andrews

Thomas A. Edison

 There's a way to do it better - find it. 

- Thomas A. Edison

C. S. Lewis

 The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. 

- C. S. Lewis

Thurgood Marshall

 None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots. 

- Thurgood Marshall

Henry Adams

 A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. 

- Henry Adams

H. L. Mencken

 The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. 

- H. L. Mencken

Stephen Covey

 Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply. 

- Stephen Covey

George Orwell

 It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. 

- George Orwell

Joyce Meyer

 I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be. 

- Joyce Meyer

John Burroughs

 A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did. 

- John Burroughs

Baltasar Gracian

 Know or listen to those who know. 

- Baltasar Gracian

Stephen Hawking

 Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. 

- Stephen Hawking

Rabindranath Tagore

 You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. 

- Rabindranath Tagore

P. T. Barnum

 Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity. 

- P. T. Barnum

Arthur Schopenhauer

 Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. 

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Fyodor Dostoevsky

 To live without Hope is to Cease to live. 

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Hypatia

 Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. 

- Hypatia

Benjamin Franklin

 Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. 

- Benjamin Franklin

James Garner

 What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician. 

- James Garner

Bertrand Russell

 Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. 

- Bertrand Russell

W. C. Fields

 Don't worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live. 

- W. C. Fields

Robin Williams

 Comedy is acting out optimism. 

- Robin Williams

Andrew Jackson

 The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. 

- Andrew Jackson

Steven Wright

 I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. 

- Steven Wright

Mark Twain

 It is easier to stay out than get out. 

- Mark Twain