I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life.

The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Edwin H. Land

So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Mao Zedong

There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.

Ben Affleck

Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good.

Charles Dickens

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

Charles Dickens

Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts.

Sarah Silverman

Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.

Mindy Kaling

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

John Cage

The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.

Jack LaLanne

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys it is all hell.

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of -- the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.

Olive Schreiner

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.[, 1 November 1996]

Arthur C. Clarke