I consider it extremely doubtful whether the happiness of the human race has been enhanced by the technical and industrial developments that followed in the wake of rapidly progressing natural science.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.

Arthur Schopenhauer

When I write to please everybody, it falls flat. When I write what I know, fearlessly, It won't please everybody, but it doesn't fall flat.

Ronald P. Chavez

Every second a seeker can start over,For his life's mistakesAre initial draftsAnd not the final version.

Sri Chinmoy

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

Hugh Grant

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Ambrose Bierce

I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to.

Liz Phair

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

Walter Bagehot

The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

These are people who accept the fire of the Holy Spirit,' he said, 'the fire that is left behind but that is used by so few people to light their candles.

Paulo Coelho

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.

James Carswell

I may have lost my ability to travel, but I’ve gained the ability to go to sleep at night.

Edward Snowden