Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

It is simply expression, as Henry says, that gives reality to things.

Oscar Wilde

Every little thing counts in a crisis.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.

Albert Camus

You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.

Ian Botham

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

Dee Dee Myers

You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.

Benjamin Carson

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone.

David Sedaris

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw Lec

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Buddha

I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state.

Gray Davis

You and your purpose in life are the same thing. Your purpose is to be you.

George Alexiou

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

Ralph Waldo Emerson