Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

Blaise Pascal

I'm like a duck: calm above the water, and paddling like hell underneath.

Fred Shero

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

Hugo Ball

Every man for himself and God for us all.

Proverb

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

George Bernard Shaw

Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.

John Updike, The Beauty of the L

That does not seem to me to be a grave objection. Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Lady Dumbleton is an instance in point. To my own knowledge she has been thirty-five ever since she arrived at the age of forty, which was many years ago now. I see no reason why our dear Cecily should not be even still more attractive at the age you mention than she is at present. There will be a large accumulation of property.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of B

No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Audrey Hepburn

I like to date schoolteachers. If you do something wrong, they make you do it over again.

Rodney Dangerfield

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

Mark Twain

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.

William Pollard