Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

Nevertheless, in order to imbue civilization with sound principles and enliven it with the spirit of the gospel, it is not enough to be illumined with the gift of faith and enkindled with the desire of forwarding a good cause. For this end it is necessary to take an active part in the various organizations and influence them from within. And since our present age is one of outstanding scientific and technical progress and excellence, one will not be able to enter these organizations and work effectively from within unless he is scientifically competent, technically capable and skilled in the practice of his own profession.

Pope John XXIII

Isaiah Berlin once said that there are two kinds of writers, hedgehogs and foxes. He said the fox knows many things, the hedgehog knows just one thing. So Shakespeare is a typical fox; Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky are typical hedgehogs. Now, I'm a typical hedgehog. I know just one thing, and I repeat it over and over again. I try to approach it from different angles to make it look different, but it's the same thing.

Colin Wilson

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Henry David Thoreau

I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.

Princess Diana

Action is the universal language of success.

Steve Maraboli

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

Patti LaBelle

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts -- a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.

Henry David Thoreau

If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy.

Charles Dickens

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

Eddie Vedder

You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't.

Denis Leary

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

George Bernard Shaw

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

V. S. Naipaul