People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Thomas Paine

Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the tragedy of man.

John Morley

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

Henri Matisse

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along -- whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

Bernard Meltzer

Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

John Donne

The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.

Joe Orton

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Adam Clayton Powell

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Walt Disney

Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.

David Limbaugh

I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.

Samantha Morton

I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

Steven Wright

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas bring me big ideas to match our future.

Arnold Schwarzenegger