My ideal travel companions are my surfboard, wetsuit, and guitar.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

Oscar Wilde

He was growing up. Soon he would be a man. He wondered what that would mean. Surely he could not have more required of him as an adult that had been required of him as a child. There could not be more.

Orson Scott Card

As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.

David Horowitz

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Walt Disney

Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look.

James Burke

You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me because that's how it's spelled.

Ellen DeGeneres

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

Richard Bach

O how we call each other namesYou call me schizophrenicI call you GodBut we do agree on oneDeluded are we both.

Sunil Vidyarthi

'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.

Isaac Watts

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Lewis Grizzard

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

Salvatore Quasimodo

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

Chen Guangcheng