Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

The scholar and the world! The endless strife, The discord in the harmonies of life! The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books; The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

Source Unknown

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Alice Walker

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Robertson Davies

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

George Will

He soon felt that the realization of his desire had given him only a grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. It showed him the eternal error people make in imagining that happiness is the realization of desires.

Leo Tolstoy

Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty interests, its inbreeding tendencies, its stifling atmosphere, its corroding influence. Once become

Minnie Maddern Fiske, As quoted

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Thomas Hobbes

I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

Adam Lambert

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Carl Jung

Happy the society whose deepest divisions are ones of style.

Peter Mckay

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!

William Shakespeare