Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.

Jeremy Renner

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lewis E. Lawes

Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.

Shelley Morrison

To be worthy of the name, he must be free of two things; the force of tradition and tyranny of his own passions.

Bertrand Russell

The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.

Eoin Colfer

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity

Aristotle

I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me.

Joel Madden

It is illegal in England to state in print that a wife can and should derive sexual pleasure from intercourse

Bertrand Russell

I've created, directed and choreographed for Lady Gaga since the beginning, so 'Born This Way,' this was musically such an amazing evolution and such a brilliant record. So when she played it for me, it took me a while to find out the visual interpretation that I could give back to her.

Laurieann Gibson

Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad.

Mitch Miller

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

John F. Kennedy

The future is that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.

Ambrose Bierce