Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Richard Neville

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember

David Mamet

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

Andy Warhol

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?

Leo Tolstoy

And I wake up happy, baby, because I possess beauty and I own that beauty in all the forms it can take and the least important of those are physical.

Kristen Ashley

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Thomas Jefferson

What once were vices are manners now.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

Francesca Annis

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Gaston Bachelard

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

Rabindranath Tagore

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Marian Wright Edleman