Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Horace Mann

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

Paul Theroux

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 182

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

Henry David Thoreau

The music is first and foremost everything - no egos, no attitude, nothing - it's about the music.

Big Boi

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

Honore de Balzac

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

Isaac Asimov

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.

Graham Norton

In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.

Armstrong Williams

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

Sir Thomas Browne

A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.

Uwe Boll

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

Albert Einstein