"Where there is great love there are always miracles." Willa Cather
"The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins."
"It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know—the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything."
"Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck."
"In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you."
"The notion 'grammatical' cannot be identified with 'meaningful' or 'significant' in any semantic sense. Sentences (1) and (2) are equally nonsensical, but only the former is grammatical.

(1) Colourless green ideas sleep furiously.

(2) Furiously sleep ideas green colourless."

Noam Chomsky
"What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be." Edna Rae Gilhooley
"I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something." Harry Chapin
"I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living." Johnny Bench
"Champagne for my real friends, and real pain for my sham friends." Tom Waits
"I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody—somewhere—was practicing more than me." Larry Bird
"I see my work like Picasso. He signed off on his work. I signed off on my work. I work hard during the week. I'm just trying to have fun." Terrell Eldorado Owens