Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

Emanuel Steward

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Samuel Johnson

I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

Laura Dern

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Quentin Crisp

Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.

Brett Favre

Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household, who like them are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary.

Charles Baudelaire

Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design.

Sergio Aragones

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, journal ent

During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

Fareed Zakaria

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.

Calvin Trillin