The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.

Polly Toynbee

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Madame de Maintenon

I remember being at Greenblatt's on Sunset, and some guy just walked straight up to me, and he had some bling on and whatever, and said something about a party down in Malibu and asked if I would jump in his car and go to the party. All I could think was, 'Who are you? I don't know you, and I don't care about how good your car is.'

Yvonne Strahovski

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

L. Ron Hubbard

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

David Rockefeller

I think that perhaps we always fall in love the very first time we see the man of our dreams, even though, at the time, reason may be telling otherwise, and we may fight against that instinct, hoping against hope that we won't win, until there comes a point when we allow ourselves to be vanquished by our feelings...

Paulo Coelho

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Kim Basinger

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

C. S. Lewis

I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed.

Angie Stone

The less you look to others,the more you find in yourself.What have you found in yourself.

Ron W. Rathbun

Into the day as by dream I swim To the music of nourished meaning.

Dejan Stojanovic