Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery.

Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry we will not tamely submit - appealing to Heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free . . . .

Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom.

[A] great deal of what we believe we do not know firsthand

Even the good things from our pasts still only belonged in the past

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can actually trick yourself into feeling better.

I try to eat in a way that makes me feel good. If that means a little bite of chocolate I do that, but I try not to use food as a reward for myself.

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

I can't understand why anyone would want nuclear warheads. If you shoot them off, it's not like you can take over that country - all you do is kill millions of people.

Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!

I know exactly how and where I am going to die. The only question is when.

The key thing is, don't worry about if anyone is reading you or not. Figure out your voice and figure out what you want to write about, what you're good at, what you like doing.