When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence.

Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.

H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chresto

Most ignorance is invincible ignorance.We don't know because we don't want to know.

Aldous Huxley

Life is a dead-end street.

H. L. Mencken

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be.

Kyan Douglas

Death is with you all the time you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

Bell Hooks

You can't cheat kids. If you cheat them when they're children they'll make you pay when they're sixteen or seventeen by revolting against you or hating you or all those so-called teenage problems. I think that's finally when they're old enough to stand up to you and say, 'What a hypocrite you've been all this time. You've never given me what I really wanted, which is you'.

John Lennon

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

Margaret Oliphant

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

James Thurber

In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.

Myriam Miedzian

The TRUTH is...If more men would rise up and speak against domestic violence, there would be less(V.A.W.)Violence Against Women in our world! Why Should they? Because 1 is 2 many! Any violence is too much.

Timothy Pina

I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.

Patti LaBelle