We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen.

Jacques Pepin

Lying rides upon debt's back.

Benjamin Franklin

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

Hans Kung

I do so hate to leave this world

Bertrand Russell

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

Henry Ward Beecher

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

Jack Abramoff

They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.

Stephen R. Covey

When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.

Francis Ford Coppola

Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.

Dejan Stojanovic

You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.

Earl Nightingale

If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.

Johann von Goethe