Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.

I never wanted to be famous.

Dave Attell

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.

Miguel Indurain

Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes.

Steve Maraboli

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

H. L. Mencken

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.

Mark Twain

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which clicks.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.

Mira Sorvino

When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.

Simone Weil

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

Tom Hayden

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

William Shakespeare

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Friedrich Nietzsche