We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

Edgar Quinet

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Henry David Thoreau

If you've lost your faith in love and music, oh, the end won't be long.

Carl Barat

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

Les Brown

I never played sports. I wasn't any good at them.

Leighton Meester

In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

George Bernard Shaw

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

Lionel Trilling

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

Richard Lamm

Food is not just eating energy. It's an experience.

Guy Fieri

There are two things that a democratic people will always find very difficult, to begin a war and to end it.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy

I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.

Alan Greenspan

Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson