The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

Ron Perlman

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

Karl Barth

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

Arthur C. Clarke

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms -- in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Friedrich Nietzsche

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyster

our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness

Samuel Johnson

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Elbert Hubbard

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Calvin Coolidge

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Albert Einstein

The idea of a teenage Dumbledore was simply odd, like trying to imagine a stupid Hermione or a friendly Blast-Ended Skrewt.

J.K. Rowling

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

Lou Holtz

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

Isadora Duncan