For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater.

George Bernard Shaw

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

Rick Springfield

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

William Butler Yeats

I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.

Samuel Johnson

Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them.

Bettina Ballard

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Karl Marx

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

George D. Prentice

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Don Herold

You can hit your legs really hard, you can get very, very sore from training and I love that, but, the one I'd feel most on stage is legs. But, the thing that happens is once the adrenalin kicks in, that's the trigger.

Warren Cuccurullo

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.Another version:A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

Robert Benchley

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Stephen King