His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

Salvador Dali

Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They were about work friendships and relationships, which is what I feel my adult life has mostly been about.

Tina Fey

Kipling sees clearly that men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilised, are there to guard and feed them.

George Orwell, essay, 1942

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Franz Kafka

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

Walter Scott

I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.

Christopher Hitchens

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

George Santayana

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

James Cash Penney

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

Morgan Freeman

My life changed the day I moved beyond just wishing for things and I started earning them. That is the day I learned that we don't get what we wish for, we get what we work for.

Steve Maraboli

Sweep the board with Cosmic Ordering Success.

Stephen Richards

A good self-esteem level is mostly dependant on how we value ourselves without any bias.

Stephen Richards