Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.

Anon.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

George Bernard Shaw

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson

My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.

Brett Ratner

So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

Camryn Manheim

The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter - these are the three characters in the drama that must necessarily end with all the logic of which an existence is capable

Albert Camus

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt. If it cannot discover the claims to existence of the objects of its questioning -- and it would be miraculous if it so soon succeeded in solving so many mysteries -- it will deny them all reality, the mere formulation of the problem already implying an inclination to negative solutions. But in so doing it will become void of all positive content and, finding nothing which offers it resistance, will launch itself perforce into the emptiness of inner revere.

Emile Durkheim

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion, insofar as it sets that th

Friedrich Nietzsche

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Orison Swett Marden