I don't know the true meaning of happiness.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Havelock Ellis

Cynicism is cheap -- you can buy it at any Monoprix store -- it's built into all poor-quality goods.

Graham Greene

The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.

Max Baucus

If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

Samuel Johnson

In the measurement world, you set a goal and strive for it. In the universe of possibility, you set the context and let life unfold.

Benjamin Zander

So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.

James Iha

It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking.

Mickey Rivers

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

Tim McGraw

There have been those who magnificently dared. There have been bearers of the truth, men who groped in the world's tumult, trying to make plain order of it. They discover what we did not yet know; chiefly they discover what we no longer knew.

Henri Barbusse

Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.

Donna Brazile

Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I were you, I'd sue my face for slander.

Terry Pratchett