Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

When men are employed, they are best contented; for on the days they worked they were good-natured and cheerful, and, with the consciousness of having done a good day's work, they spent the evening jollily; but on our idle days they were mutinous and quarrelsome.

Benjamin Franklin

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

Mahatma Gandhi

I can do whatever I want -- I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

Don Johnson

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.

Ethan Hawke

The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

Anne Lamott

Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.

Mark Twain

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

Pierre Schaeffer

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Margaret Young

You only have one thing to sell in life, and that's yourself.

Henry Kravis

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

Bob Hope

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

Richard Whately