The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.

My life is my argument.

Albert Schweitzer

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

Evelyn Waugh

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Steve Jobs

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Helen Rowland

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.

H. G. Wells

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

James Garfield

The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work.

Herbie Mann

I do smoke in real life. A lot. We're all smoking right now in fact.

Michael Imperioli

What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love that casts a widening pool of light. Love with no need to preempt grievance.In today's sharp sparkle, this winter air, anything can be made, any sentence begun.On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp -- praise song for walking forward in that light.

Elizabeth Alexander

?By reacting from fear instead of responding from love, you inject poison directly into the veins of your relationship.

Steve Maraboli

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

Alice Sebold

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw