The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.

Elbert Hubbard

Why throw money at problems? That's what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.

Kurt Vonnegut

At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised - I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts.

Guy Berryman

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

Action expresses priorities.

Mahatma Gandhi

They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone.

Alice Cooper

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

Russell Baker

We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dream.

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free.

Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny (1919

The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.

Marla Gibbs

The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself -- where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Clark Moustakas

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

Jean Baudrillard