The fifties -- they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

Doug Horton

Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

Plato

Life should be great rather than long.

B. R. Ambedkar

If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.

Edward Gardner

What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.

Confucius

If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Ernest Hemingway

I've had dreams about tricks.

Shaun White

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

V. S. Naipaul

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Peter Drucker

Think Positive.

Deepak Chopra

Knowing one's 'individuality'. - We are too prone to forget that in the eyes of people who are seeing us for the first time we are something quite different from what we consider ourselves to be: usually we are nothing more than a single individual trait which leaps to the eye and determines the whole impression that we make.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

David Ogden Stiers