Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Francis Bacon

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.

Michael John Bobak

If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.

Johnson

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Ronald Reagan

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

Jean de la Bruyere

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

Francis Bacon

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Mahatma Gandhi

I really do love Diana Ross I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

Salma Hayek

London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble we had severe energy problems we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.

Ian Mcewan

Thy best of rest is sleep,And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'stThy death, which is no more.

William Shakespeare

Lives are snowflakes - forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close in

Neil Gaiman

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Brigitte Bardot