Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Claude M. Bristol

The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

Ambrose Bierce

It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.

Stephen King

Choose rather to punish your appetites than be punished by them.

Tyrius Maximus

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Billy Joel

The Psalmist believed in a personal God, and knew nothing of that modern pantheism which is nothing more than atheism wearing a fig leaf.

Charles H. Spurgeon

I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a couch, and think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries. Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences, in sections of two, three or four lines each.

Allen Ginsberg

Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.

Dejan Stojanovic

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share.But whatever happens to you, you still have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analyses, you have got not to forget to laugh.

Katharine Hepburn

Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.

Dan Glickman

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle