According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek.

There'll come a time when all of us must leave here, then nothing sister Mary can do Will keep me here with you. As nothing in this life that I've been trying could equal or surpass the art of dying. Do you believe me?

George Harrison

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T. S. Eliot

we try so hard to live free, only to die and be confined to a brass prison

Onwuka Emeka

I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.

Tracey Ullman

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

Christian D. Larson

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

Bruce Beresford

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Lillian Hellman, Watch on the Rh

No brain is stronger than its weakest think.

Thomas L. Masson

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Paulo Coelho

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

James Thurber

For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

Bob Barr

Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.

Benjamin Franklin