Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

Howard Dietz

You can't steal second base with your foot on first.

Proverb

We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.

Paulo Coelho

Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.

Mitt Romney

The event of falling in love is of such a nature that we are right to reject as intolerable the idea that it should be transitory. In one high bound it has overleaped the massive of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being. Spontaneously and without effort we have fulfilled the law (towards one person) by loving our neighbour as ourselves. It is an image, a foretaste, of what we must become to all if Love Himself rules in us without a rival. It is even (well used) a preparation for that.

C.S. Lewis

Spaghetti is love.

Mario Batali

A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles -- whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled -- is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these anti-conditions, your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Arabs respect only the language of force.

Moshe Sharett

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

We will not have peace by afterthought.

Norman Cousins

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron