I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else....

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

Orison Swett Marden

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!

Chuck Palahniuk

I'd like to sing you a song now about my old girlfriend. It'scalled, They'll Find Her When the Leaves Blow Away 'Cause I'mNot Raking 'Til Spring.

Steven Wright

While there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we do not teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual, however; for we do not habitually demand any more of each other.

Henry David Thoreau

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Herman Melville

It's like, no matter what I do, I always feel like I'm five years old, and I end up in the back of my father's car looking out the window, and nothing has changed in 25 years.

Dylan McDermott

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Albert Camus

When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

Alexander Pope

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

Saint Isaac of Nineveh

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

K. D. Lang

All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at whose bottom is the loss of one's soul.

Victor Hugo

The sad and solemn night hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires;The glorious host of light walk the dark hemisphere till she retires;All through her silent watches, gliding slow,Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go.

William Cullen Bryant, Hymn to t