To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

I cannot be fired. Slaves have to be sold.

Source Unknown

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life but that it bothers him less and less.

Vaclav Havel

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus

I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood.

Kathleen Turner

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

Sir Thomas Browne

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man's place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own.

Bertrand Russell

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

Kofi Annan

Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.

Mo Rocca

It's weird, I never wish anything bad upon anybody, except two or three old girlfriends.

Carrot Top

What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.

John Boorman

He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

Colin Quinn

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

Walter Isaacson