Shlomo Bernartzi

"Self-control is not a problem in the future. It's only a problem NOW when the chocolates is next to us."

David Assael

"Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others."

Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde

"Einstein said God doesn't play dice with the universe, but I don't know--maybe not as a whole, but I think he gets a pretty big kick out of messing in peoples' back yards."

Zelda Fitzgerald

"[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn�t boring."

George Moore

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."

Anne Tyler

"People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have."

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."

William S. Burroughs

"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on."

Real Live Preacher

"Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'"

Plutarch

"The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it."

Thomas K. Mattingly II

"It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space."

Agatha Christie

"I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."

Bob Dylan

"When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks."

Michel de Montaigne

"Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved."

Joyce Carol Oates

"If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it."

Goldie Hawn

"I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile."

Ivan Pavlov

"Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise."

Sir Walter Scott

"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit."

Millicent Fenwick

"Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self."

Ann Radcliffe

"Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value."

Kathy Sierra

"In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are."

Whitney Young

"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self."

Bible

"Ask, and it shall be given you; Seek, and ye shall find; Knock, and it shall be opened unto you."

Meryl Streep

"My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert."