The gratification of desire is not happiness.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

Francois Rabelais

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

Jimi Hendrix

Travel, trouble, music, art, A kiss, a frock, a rhyme - I never said they feed my heart, But still they pass my time.

Dorothy Parker, Faute de Mieux

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

Josh Billings

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.

Henry Ward Beecher

My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor.

Greg Iles

Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.

Oscar Wilde

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Ray Prince

When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.

William Shakespeare

Life isn't about finding yourself.

AV

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

Jimmy Carter