Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.

Terry Eagleton

Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.

Aleister Crowley

Don't let yourself be destroyed by a force that was placed in our hearts in order to make everything better.

Paulo Coelho

In the long run we are all dead.

John Maynard Keynes

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

Plato

The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.

John D. MacDonald

When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.

Ted Allen

As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?

Jodi Picoult

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

Audrey Hepburn

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Thomas Jefferson

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

Dick Armey

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Douglas Horton