People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Giacomo Casanova

Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.

Chinese Proverb

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.

P. J. Plauger

Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

Jane Austen

The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

Ptolemy

I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.

Joe Namath

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Pearl S. Buck

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Anthony Robbins

The Jabalites .... They worship no god; and if we in goodness of heart do send a missionary to show them the way of life, they listen with respect to all he hath to say, and then they eat him. This doth tend to hinder the spread of light.

Mark Twain

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

Robyn Hitchcock

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Albert Camus

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Friedrich Von Schlegel