Most of the people I know who work out seriously do so because they have such an amazing outlook on life. To be who I want to be, I'm going to work out to be more positive, more active. It's proactive.

When I was five years old I was on a merry go round. There wasa gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was runningdown the street on a purple wooden horse.

Steven Wright

It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all.

Jane Campion

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.

Rudy Rucker

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

Maya Lin

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

Harry S. Truman

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

Dalai Lama

You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.

Abraham Lincoln

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes --ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

Aldous Huxley

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

Jane Austen

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

Sigmund Freud

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

Henry Hazlitt

We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley