Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

Victor Hugo

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

Mason Cooley

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Francis Bacon

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

John Vance Cheney

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence

Thomas Jefferson

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Jane Austen

Valentine's day without your love is like a year without the Internet.

Santosh Kalwar

An empire is an immense egotism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.

Pamela Anderson

But the mechanics of learning to 'throw your voice' are pretty simple. Anyone with a tongue, an upper palate, teeth, and a normal speaking voice can learn ventriloquism.

Jeff Dunham

It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things; that, beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power, on which he can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him: then is he caught up into the life of the Universe, his speech is thunder, his thought is law, and his words are universally intelligible as the plants and animals.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.

Serj Tankian