To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.

Stevie Nicks

Here lies Howard Campbell's essence, Freed from his body's noisome nuisance. His body, empty, prowls the earth, Earning what a body's worth. If his body and his essence remain apart, Burn his body, but spare this, his heart.

Kurt Vonnegut

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

Alan Rickman

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Johann von Goethe

Happiness is always a coincidence.

Jose Bergamin

Being a farmer is a great qualification to have to serve in the United States Congress.

Bruce Braley

Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

Winston Churchill

One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.

Georges Simenon

Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.

Alexander Pope

There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be a saint. But give me a break.

Michael Douglas