The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple relatedness.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!

Naomi Watts

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

Father James Keller

I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

Muhammad Ali

People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.

Lee Westwood

It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow.

James Madison

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

Herbert Read

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

Do you want to know the closest thing to feeling the most powerful you can feel ? Flying alone at night.Risky.Nothing but you and the wind soaring way above everything , Slicing through the air like a Sword. Up and up until you feel like you can grab a star and hold it to your chest like a burning, Spiky thing

James Patterson

I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.

Wallace Stevens

By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.

Jos

As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech.

Katherine Francke