It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I hope to work with kids any way possible.

Jenna Bush

the squeeky wheel gets the grease.

Josh Billings

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.

Joseph Brodsky

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Thomas Carlyle

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

Alberto Giacometti

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

Thomas De Quincey

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Edith Armstrong

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Buddha

If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.

Paulo Coelho

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

Alice Meynell