Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Mother Theresa

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Mark Twain

He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.

Jack Nicklaus

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude -- confidence in self.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

Diogenes

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

Ivor Novello

I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.

Jeff Bridges

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Felix Frankfurter

Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff?

Steven Wright

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy

George Bernard Shaw

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin