The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.

Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

Michel de Montaigne

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

Simone Weil

Tendencies. Yougottendencies. Soevenifyoudideverythingoveragain, yourwholelife, yougottendenciestodojustwhatyoudid, alloveragain. -The Sheep Man.

Haruki Murakami

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

Sir Thomas More

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

Bob Dylan

This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.

Hillary Clinton

I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

Emma Thompson

If someone can do it, why can't you be that someone to someone.

Koundeenya Dhulipalla

Madness is something rare in individuals -- but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

William Shakespeare

In any relationship that comes to an end, there's never just a baseline reason why. You say, 'Oh, I broke up with my girlfriend.' Someone says, 'Why?' You say, 'Well, you got three hours? And then maybe after I tell you my version, you've got to talk to her.'

Michael Rapaport

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

Max Eastman