I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.

Buddha

If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice.

Bowen Baxter

We take for granted the need to escape the self. Yet the self can also be a refuge. In totalitarian countries the great hunger is for private life. Absorption in the minutiae of an individual existence is the only refuge from the apocalyptic madhouse staged by maniacal saviors of humanity.

Eric Hoffer

My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.

Carl Hiaasen

There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.

Florynce R. Kennedy

God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.

Stevie Wonder

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Menander

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Lou Holtz

Beware: some liers tell the truth

Arab Proverb

There are only two ways to get a new customer: 1. solicit a new customer any way you can. 2. Take good care of your present customers, so they don't become someone else's new customers.

Ed Zeitz

An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience, but the ways in which a story-germ uses the soil of experience are extremely complex, and attempts to define the process are at best guesses from evidence that is inadequate and ambiguous.

J.R.R. Tolkien