The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose

A fault that humbles a man is of greater value than a virtue that puffs him up.

Source Unknown

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

Billie Joe Armstrong

The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.

Christopher Hitchens

Intuition is our inner teacher, our inner source of love, truth and wisdom, in life.

Swami Dhyan Giten

As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.

Boris Kodjoe

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.

William Butler Yeats

I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.

Natasha Hamilton

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

Thomas E. Lawrence

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

George Jean Nathan

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Simone de Beauvoir

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

Herbert Marcuse

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Erma Bombeck