The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Groucho Marx

My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ.

Sinead O'Connor

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

William Feather

But perhaps the most mysterious thing he ever said about it was this. I was questioning him on the subject

C.S. Lewis

Bring a timer.

Steve Jobs

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. What are threescore years and ten hurriedly and coarsely lived to moments of divine leisure in which your life is coincident with the life of the universe?

Henry David Thoreau

Polite conversation is rarely either.

Fran Lebowitz

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

Auguste Rodin

In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song.

Peter Gallagher

It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?

Ken Follet

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Isaiah Berlin

People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.

Ann Wilson