Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

Eckhart Tolle

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

Pierre Beaumarchais

Retail is detail.

James Gulliver

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart wants what the heart wants.

Stephen King

What a stupid attitude we have in this country to personal stories.

Amanda Burton

I'm so fascinated by the concept of teen pregnancy for some reason. Not that I condone it or promote it, but it's just a very real thing in our country and culture.

Leven Rambin

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

Carl Hiaasen

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

Murder is terribly exhausting.

Albert Camus

I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.

Frank Sinatra

I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Charlie Chaplin

So I walk like I'm on a mission cuz that's the way I groove. I got more and more to do, I got less and less to prove. It took me too long to realize that I don't take good pictures Cuz I have the kind of beauty that moves.

Ani DiFranco