Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks and so may no one touch you who loves you.

This is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

Kurt Vonnegut

There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself.

Maurice Switzer

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C.P. (Charles Percy) Snow

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

Ray Bradbury

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition.

Eric Clapton

I should do something about the cigarettes I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

Charles Kennedy

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

Milton Berle

I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.

Erykah Badu

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes, in seeing the universe with the eyes of another, of hundreds of others, in seeing the hundreds of universes that each of them sees.

Marcel Proust

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

Euripides

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Jim Bishop, A Bishop's Confessio

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

Tacitus