The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

Pete Seeger

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Virginia Woolf

Thinking back on it, this evening, with my heart and my stomach all like jelly, I have finally concluded, maybe that's what life life is about: there's a lot of despair, but also the odd moment of beauty, where time is no longer the same. It's as if those strains of music created a sort of interlude in time, something suspended, an elsewhere that had come to us, an always within never.Yes, that's it, an always within never.

Muriel Barbery

I think Polanski's an amazing director.

David Duchovny

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Rumi

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend- provided of course he really is dead.

Voltaire

You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.

Julie Benz

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

Sam Ewing

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.

William Shakespeare

I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

Carrie Fisher