We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Thomas Jefferson

Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Aesop

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.

Will Rogers

As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.

Jenny Eclair

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

Emma Thompson

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

Thomas A. Edison

God can inject hope into a absolutely hopeless situation.

Mark Evans

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?

Dale Carnegie

I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth.

Walter Martin

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

Bono

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

John Ruskin