Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud.

Christopher Hitchens

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

Alanis Morissette

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Lewis Mumford

None of us really pushes hard enough.

Fran Tarkenton

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

Ezra Pound

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Walt Disney

I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.

Vanilla Ice

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.

Daniele Vare

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

John Major

Without health, life is not life, it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

Buddha

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Abu Bakr

People do not lack strength, they lack will.

Victor Hugo