In response to gibes from Quebec sports announcers: out of ugly, I think the most important thing to do in life is to make something beautiful

The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.

Ethan Hawke

I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. There's European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European.

Henning Mankell

The female that loves unrequited sleeps, And the male that loves unrequited sleeps, The head of the money-maker that plotted all day sleeps, And the enraged and treacherous dispositions, all, all sleep.

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

Elizabeth Bowen

I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs?

Sydney Pfizer

If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common denominator -- the commodity form. The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value, counts.

Herbert Marcuse

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.

Benjamin Franklin

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

Dianne Feinstein

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

Richard Bach