Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

Paul Getty

When you think about it, the Big Bang's a big like school, isn't it?...Well, I mean to say, one day we'll all leave here and become scientists and bank clerks and driving instructors and hotel managers -- the fabric of society, so to speak. But in the meantime, that fabric, that is to say, us, the , is crowded into one tiny little point where none of the laws of society applies, viz., this school.-Ruprecht

Paul Murray

Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what here sorrow was, and she replied, We are a family of hunters. My father was eaten by a tiger. My husband was bitten by a tiger and died. And now my only son! Why don't you move down and live in the valley? Why do you continue to live up here? asked Confucius. And the woman replied, But sir, there are no tax collectors here! Confucius added to his disciples, You see, a bad government is more to be feared than tigers.

Lin Yutang

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Kahlil Gibran

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Oscar Wilde

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

Rebecca West

One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.

Augustine Birrell, Alexander Pop

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

Anne Roiphe

Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.

Stephen King

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

J.D. Salinger

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Charlie Chaplin