People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Jim Rohn

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made

George Bernard Shaw

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

Nancy Astor

Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!'

Matt Groening

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuc

As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I never thought that heav'n would lose its blue And sullen storm-clouds mask the gentle sky; I never thought the rose's velvet hue Would pale and sicken, though we said good-by. I never dreamed the lark would hush its note As day succeeded ever-drearier day, Nor knew the song that swelled the robin's throat Would fade to silence, when you went away. I never knew the sun's irradiant beams Upon the brooding earth no more would shine, Nor thought that only in my mocking dreams Would happiness that once I knew be mine. I never thought the slim moon, mournfully, Would shroud her pallid self in murky night. Dear heart, I never thought these things would be-I never thought they would, and I was right.

Dorothy Parker, Absence

It is only the minority of people who seek self-improvement or personal growth. This is because whatever one's self-criticisms, one secretly really believes that one's way of being is okay and probably the only correct one. They are alright as they are, and all problems are caused by other people's selfishness, unfairness, and by the external world.

David R. Hawkins

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.

Stella Adler

I am the tool with which God works. My virtue is to participate in this work, and I can do so if I keep the instrument which is given to me, namely my soul, in immaculate condition.

Leo Tolstoy

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

Samuel Adams

So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.

Robert Mueller