Life sucks. Enlightenment is getting over it.

My career was full of struggles and dreams, disappointments and peaks and valleys. But there was no Twitter, no Facebook or TMZ. Young actors could make mistakes and not become the focus of tabloids.

Ricky Schroder

She was so ugly that I took her to a dog show and she won first prize.

Rodney Dangerfield

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

George Eliot

Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.

Eddie Vedder

A hungry stomach has no ears.

Proverb

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

A life of happiness, peace, and love is all within our grasp.

Steve Maraboli

Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We don't want it to be something the majority is voting on. I don't think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

Alex Kapranos

I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.

Francois Hollande

We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.

Bertolt Brecht

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

Richard Thompson