Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it.

Izaak Walton

When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool.

Luke Wilson

One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.

Harold Rosenberg

A good part of what appears to us - prima facie - as objective reality is, instead, just a consequence of our conventions to discover it.

Felix Alba-Juez

The holiest of all the spots on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love

Helen Shucman

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

Baltasar Gracian

Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark. It is an attempt by each man to be as happy as possible. And each person could not begin from the same point, for the world has not just come into being; it is diverse and infinitely varied in its parts. The mere fact that one individual is necessarily born in a different place from someone else immediately insures that his inherited opportunity cannot be the same as his neighbor's. The drive for equality of opportunity would also require the abolition of the family since different parents have unequal abilities; it would require the communal rearing of children. The State would have to nationalize all babies and raise them in State nurseries under 'equal' conditions. But even here conditions cannot be the same, because different State officials will themselves have different abilities and personalities. And equality can never be achieved because of necessary differences of location.

Murray N. Rothbard

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

Edward Burnett Tylor

To hit bottom is to fall from grace.

Doug Horton

My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

Michel de Montaigne

I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.

Freida Pinto

Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.

Terry Pratchett