Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

You believe what your eyes want to believe!

Santosh Kalwar

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

Rita Mae Brown

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious

Marcel Proust

I cannot say that the attitude of the United Nations always is for the Israeli attitude. Israel, I think, has been under severe attacks by members of the United Nations many times.

Ariel Sharon

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

Julie Bishop

Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.

Tom Lehrer

Red Dawn' was very resonant with a lot of people - they love that movie. I always thought it was a little hysterical.

Lea Thompson

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.

Tommy Lee Jones

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Carl Zwanzig

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Jules Ellinger

Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.

Alanna Ubach

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.

Marlo Thomas