Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

Contrary to what we usually believe . . . the best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times--although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have worked hard to attain them.The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: T

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Thomas Jefferson

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Julie Andrews

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

Chuck Palahniuk

In life it wasn't what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to buy teams and had they bought the teams, I would have gotten to coach because they wanted me to coach. But the people who have the teams hire their friends.

Rick Barry

I learned very early in my life in Whitehall, the acid test of any political question is; What is the Alternative?

Lord Trent

Some of the things I've seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive - I've seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things... like, the FBI should be contacted immediately.

Elisha Cuthbert

I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the sea streaming like a wet wash. I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

Albert Camus

If you wish to be a leader you will be frustrated, for very few people wish to be led. If you aim to be a servant you will never be frustrated.

Frank F. Warren

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

Jhumpa Lahiri

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites instead it fragments.

Maggie Gallagher

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open.

Muriel Rukeyser