A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.

John Cusack

A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.

Mitch Hedberg

The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can't. One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can't put things right in a hole-and-corner way, if you take my meaning.

George Orwell

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

Brent Scowcroft

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

H. L. Mencken

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

William Hazlitt

I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.

Shigeru Miyamoto

How you manage yourself as you deal with stuff in your life largely determines the quality of your life.

Darren L Johnson

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

Leo Tolstoy

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

Eminem

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

Heinrich Heine

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Edward W. Howe