Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

I try to cope with everything through humor.

Gail Porter

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.

Norman Rockwell

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

Dale Carnegie

My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face

William Shakespeare

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Havelock Ellis

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Aristotle

I know so many amazing actors who don't get work... and then there are a bunch of real duds that work all the time. The industry is just not fair in that way.

Jenna Fischer

All things considered, I could never have survived my youth without Wagnerian music. For I seemed condemned to the society of Germans. If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take to hashish. Well, I had to take to Wagner...

Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

William Hazlitt

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.

Mira Nair

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere.

Jane Austen

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Charlotte Bronte