The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.

Albert Camus

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

Ralph Bunche

Every little thing counts in a crisis.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Oscar Wilde

Historian -- an unsuccessful novelist.

H. L. Mencken

I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill.

Charlie Sheen

I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished

By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.

Immanuel Kant

As far as self-confidence goes, so much of social media is about approval, getting likes, comparing our lives to others' - meanwhile, confidence is an inside job: it's about how you feel about yourself regardless of what anyone else does or thinks. It's a knowing that you're human, you're flawed, and you're awesome in your own way.

Jen Sincero

It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust.

Ewan McGregor

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

Rosalind Russell