The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.

Kevin Smith

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

Edwin Louis Cole

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

Hermann Hesse

Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.

Gary Bauer

Well Australia's been in Afghanistan from the get go, way back in 2001, but we have been resolute throughout and with support from both sides of Australian politics.

Kevin Rudd

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

Honore de Balzac

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Albert Camus

As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, we attack it, and we try to kill it.

Victor Hugo

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents.

Peg Bracken

When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

Shia LaBeouf