Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.

Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience.

Harold Ruopp

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Bernard Meltzer

As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

Sandra Boynton

A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: There is no indispensable man.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Humphrey Bogart

I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'

George Clooney

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

Robert Bresson

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.

Meister Eckhart

Much of what is labeled mental illness simply reflects our

George Vaillant

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"

I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?

Kate Atkinson

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Albert Einstein