I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

Source Unknown

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere

Mark Twain

For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'

Rand Paul

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Walter Lippmann

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Len Deighton

A hobby is hard work you wouldn't do for a living.

Source Unknown

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.

Billy Corgan

He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.

Jared Leto

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Paul Valery

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth; and his alert acceptance of it, from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors.

George McGovern

Does art reflect life? In movies, yes. Because more than any other art form, films have been a mirror held up to society's porous face.

Marjorie Rosen