Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

I don't return anybody's calls unless it's going to mean extra money for me. And I've completely cut off all relationships with any friends that I had before the show. And I've copped an attitude.

Mike Judge

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Comte De Mirabeau

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

T. S. Eliot

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Alphonse Karr

For if the truth were known, Love cannot speak, But only thinks and does; Though surely out 'twill leak Without the help of Greek, Or any tongue.

Henry David Thoreau

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

B. C. Forbes

My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing.

Gwen Stefani

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Mahatma Gandhi

When you are grateful - when you can see what you have - you unlock blessings to flow in your life.

Suze Orman

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

Joseph Butler

Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.

Robert Rodriguez