I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.

Hugh Grant

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Bill Cosby

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically -- for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist -- but then what isn t?

Quentin Crisp

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Past and to come seems best; things present worst

William Shakespeare

The test of any man's character is how he takes praise.

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Lost in a gloom of uninspired research.

William Wordsworth

Some people are making such thorough plans for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

William Feather

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Paula Nelson

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.

Steve Jobs

I have learned that friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left your side.

Yolanda Hadid

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

Alan Watts