Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks. I love you like a river that gives water to the thirsty and takes people where they want to go.

Paulo Coelho

My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

Iggy Pop

I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know.

Lennart Nilsson

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'

Andy Warhol

You got to believe in yourself. Hell, I believe I'm the best-looking guy in the world & I might be right.

Charles Barkley

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

C.S. Lewis

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Charles de Gaulle

I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.

Richard Pryor

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

Terry Pratchett

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Immanuel Kant

My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot read, 'Twixt every page my thoughts go stray at large Down in the meadow, where is richer feed, And will not mind to hit their proper targe.

Henry David Thoreau

In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.

Linda Ronstadt