To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.

I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

Ted Nugent

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

Alfred Tennyson

The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

Alben W. Barkley

You wish to put a positive construction on your deeds and words.

Nigel Rees

You have to make peace with life.

Cheryl Ladd

Oh! if, when we oppress and grind our fellow-creatures, we bestowed but one thought on the dark evidences of human error, which, like dense and heavy clouds, are rising, slowly it is true, but not less surely, to Heaven, to pour their after-vengeance on our heads; if we heard but one instant, in imagination, the deep testimony of the dead men's voices, which no power can stifle, and no pride shut out; where would be the injury and injustice: the suffering, misery, cruelty, and wrong: that each day's life brings with it!

Charles Dickens

I hope you love birds, too. It is economical. It saves going to Heaven.

Emily Dickinson, Letter in Lette

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

Irv Kupcinet

I value my privacy and my personal life - and I certainly don't exploit my personal life.

Scarlett Johansson

Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day;Let other hours be set apart for business.To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk;And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.

Henry Fielding, Tom Thumb the Gr

I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.

Walter Matthau

Hey, A-D-D, she called out to Claire, come over and try these on.

Kimberly Derting