To describe happiness is to diminish it.

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

Archibald MacLeish

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Paul Gauguin

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

Charles Baudelaire

Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.

Jim Harrison

Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.

Eric Hoffer

Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty

George Bernard Shaw

You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.

Nadia Comaneci

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

Oscar Wilde

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Erich Fromm

It would be worth the while to look closely into the eye which has been open and seeing at such hours, and in such solitudes, its dull, yellowish, greenish eye. Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

Henry David Thoreau

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Frank Lloyd Wright