Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

Jean de La Fontaine

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

George Bush

We stand in silence for another moment and I realize how lucky I am to have someone I can be myself around in all my melancholy glory.

Marisa Calin

Politics makes strange bed-fellows.

Charles Dudley Warner

My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.

Emeril Lagasse

Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?

Mark Lawrence

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally then to succeed unconventionally.

John Maynard Keynes

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.

C.S. Lewis

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

Cesare Pavese

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.

Stanley Fish

You know what I want in a woman, Paul? What's that? A friend. A true friend; someone who knows me and loves me anyway. You know, like when I'm through putting my best foot forward, she's still there, still the same.

Don Miller

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus