The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.

Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.

Gilda Radner

Life is a game of common sense. You can know all the data that the encyclopedia holds, but if you can't apply it to social situations and day to day events, you're on the same rank as someone with no data at all.

Zack W. Van

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Henry David Thoreau

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

Leo Tolstoy

I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

John Stuart Mill

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.

G. W. F. Hegel

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

George Gurdjieff

All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and in you too.

Joni Mitchell

The Dreamer awakesThe shadow goes byThe tale I have told you,That tale is a lie.But listen to me,Bright maiden, proud youthThe tale is a lie;What it tells is the truth.

Traditional folktale ending

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Frederick Koenig

In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.

Charles Edwin Carruthers