Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy s--t we don't need.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

Henry David Thoreau

Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.

Gavin DeGraw

We are the people our parents warned us about.

Jimmy Buffett

Failure has gone to his head.

Wilson Mizner

How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.

Ernest Hemingway

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!

Elizabeth Wordsworth

Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.

Donald Rumsfeld

Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.

H. Rider Haggard

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

Roger Penrose

Hiding from your history only shackles you to it. Instead, face it and free yourself.

Steve Maraboli

Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis -- at any time of night or day.

Kurt Vonnegut