If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.

Max Muller

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Clifton Fadiman

The fact that you are willing to say, I do not understand, and it is fine, is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Wayne Dyer

I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.

William Jefferson Clinton

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.

Wendell Willkie

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J.K. Rowling

The effort to remold, in one's own life, the culture one has grown into is heavy with danger. The searcher is likely to be treated as a criminal or a madman, condemned and criticized by his own society, ridiculed, even persecuted. Even if he is more fortunate--even if he is simply ignored by others--he must begin his struggle as a cripple. For to consciously reject the generalized attitudes' of the parent society is to reject positive reference points that have helped him evaluate his actions and accomplishments.This is the price of freedom on the peripheries. We are able to free ourselves from our parent culture only by destroying parts of ourselves, much as an animal might escape the hunter's trap by gnawing off its own leg. But unlike the wounded animal, the detached person is doubly crippled; however he mutilates himself, he will never quite be free of the trap but will carry it with him in his new freedom.

Donald A. Hansen, An Invitation

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

Oscar Wilde

The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.

Clive Owen

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

Jackie Kennedy

People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories.

P.K. Shaw