People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

Jack Lemmon

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.

Merton Miller

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Bono

Hope is the denial of reality.

Margaret Weis

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Brian Tracy

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Johann von Goethe, attributed; u

And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them.

Franz Werfel

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods;They kill us for their sport.

William Shakespeare, King Lear

Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

John Wooden