- "Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure."
- - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."
- - Tom Stoppard
- "When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'"
- - Theodore Roosevelt
- "Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others."
- - Jonathan Winters