Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas Edison

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends that's the good stuff in life.

Drew Barrymore

My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that. And so far, I think it's respect and quality and company, not celebrity or box office or stardom. It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.

Jason Bateman

If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverb

[...] endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand and marvel at their exceeding smoothness, were chiseled into their varies and graceful forms by the ceaseless action of countless waves. Nature is herself a great worker and never tolerates, without certain rebuke, any contradiction to her wise example. Inaction is followed by stagnation. Stagnation is followed by pestilence and pestilence is followed by death.

Frederick Douglass

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.

Jorge Luis Borges

Deemest thou labor Only is earnest? Grave is all beauty, Solemn is joy.

William Watson (poet)

Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.

Alexander Volkov

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

H. L. Mencken

It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.

Hillary Clinton

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

Lorna Luft