It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

Terry Pratchett

The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.

Vincent D'Onofrio

I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.

Rodney Dangerfield

When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues.

Les Brown

Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished.

Bible

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Samuel Johnson

Life will get much better when you stop caring about what everyone thinks, and start to actually live for yourself.

Robert Tew

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.

Christian Bale

All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.

Arthur J. Russell

I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.

Radha Mitchell

I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.

Christopher Walken

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

Gustave Courbet