A man surprised is half beaten.

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.

Conan O'Brien

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

Wallace Stevens

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.

Wilhelm Reich

When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate.

Raymond Blanc

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Walker Percy

So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.

Thomas Jefferson

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

Oscar Wilde

Knowledge is like an endless resource; a well of water that satisfies the innate thirst of the growing human soul. Therefore never stop learning... because the day you do, you will also stop maturing.

Chidi Okonkwo

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

Gabrielle Union

Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?

Jodi Picoult

Friendship is not by force but by choice.You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.

Stella Oladiran