"The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain." — Colin Wilson, English philosopher, born 1931
"When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds." — Colin Wilson, English philosopher, born 1931
"Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is." — Colin Wilson, English philosopher, born 1931
"Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back." — Colin Wilson, English philosopher, born 1931
"The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music." — Dennis Wilson, American singer, born 1944
"The object of love is to serve, not to win." — Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, born 1856
"You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape." — Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, born 1856
"Let us remember that in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives and the world in which we live them, and that if we more fully inhabit these things, we might be less apt to destroy both." — Christian Wiman, American poet, born in 1966
"When you make loving others the story of your life, there’s never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another." — Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host, born 1954
"I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode." — Kate Winslet, English actress, born October 5, 1975
"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it." — Jonathan Winters, American comedian, born 1925
"I have a photographic memory; I just haven't developed it yet." — Jonathan Winters, American comedian, born 1925