Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you? -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

There are two tragedies in life: one is to lose your heart's desire, the other is to gain it.

Iraq is an unjust war. .

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear. -A. A. Milne.

Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.

He is rich who owes nothing.

Every little thing counts in a crisis.

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining.

The scientist who lives laborious days in the disinterested pursuit of truth, the artist who will starve in a garret if only he may express the beauty he has seen, the martyr who will obey God in the scorn of consequence, are all religious men or, at least, are men who illustrate that principle which lies behind religion. Truth, Beauty, Goodness -- these are sacred, the object of man's true love and reverence. He to whom nothing is sacred, all questions are open, and the distinction between right and wrong is blurred, is an enslaved, not an emancipated, spirit.

And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment .

Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.