The human mind is like a TV set. When it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.

She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart.

Lloyd Alexander

Continental people have sex lives; the English have hot-water bottles.

George Mikes

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Jackie Chan

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

Albert Camus

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

Oscar Wilde

Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.

William James

I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.

Ruth Warrick

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your step as you walk the tightrope of life.

William Arthur Ward

The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.

Oscar Wilde

It is an ancient political vehicle, held together by soft soap and hunger and with front-seat drivers and back-seat drivers contradicting each other in a bedlam of voices, shouting

Adlai Stevenson, On the Republic

The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.

Carl Gustav Jung

Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.

Ving Rhames