People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Horace

Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.

Oscar Niemeyer

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

Lawrence Summers

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.

Edward Hopper

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.

Harvey Keitel

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

Josh Billings

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

Thomas Paine

The ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming.

J.K. Rowling

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Ernest Hemingway

Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.

Simon Mainwaring

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

Red Skelton

You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, don't show up in the morning paper.

Jane Goodsell