Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

Mitch Albom

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Sextus Propertius

I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it.

Mark Wahlberg

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

Lou Reed

Success can't be forced.

Loretta Young

She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking about girls; she wasn't a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a sneaky bitch; she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women.

Margaret Atwood

Incidentally, did you know that the whole eight glasses a day thing is complete bullshit and has no scientific basis? So many things are like that. Everyone just assumes they're true, because people are basically lazy and incurious, which incidentally is one of those words that sounds like it wouldn't be a word but is.

John Green

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.

Giovanni Ruffini

The bird who has eaten cannot fly with the bird that is hungry.

American Indian Proverb, Omaha

I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.

John Malkovich

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is -- a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

Herbert Spencer

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

Rita Mae Brown