Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. On being a high-profile social smoker

In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Grandma Moses

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Tim Foley

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Mark Twain

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.

Rowan Atkinson

People who are out to find fault seldom find anything else. It is a waste of time, no matter how much you find fault, it is not going to change anything. It's better to find a remedy.

James Dye

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

Huey Newton

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Amos Bronson Alcott

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Benjamin Disraeli

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

David Suzuki