Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed.

Drew Carey

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience -- and laughter.

Susan M. Watkins

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Vicki Baum

Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

Jack Herer

The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.

Arthur Henderson

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority

Samuel Johnson

The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based on science is the effective antidote, the light and the way at last placed before us.

E. O. Wilson

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

Eminem

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.

J. Courtney Sullivan

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

Daniel Day Lewis

Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

Suzanne Collins