The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.

Paul Thomas Anderson

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.

Publilius Syrus

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it

Mark Twain

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Newt Gingrich

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

Ovid

Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.

Ambrose Bierce

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it

Bertrand Russell

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

Adam Sandler

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

Charles Fourier

You're really spread out now, you've got stuff all over the WORLD! You've got stuff at home, stuff in storage, stuff in Honolulu, stuff in Maui, stuff in your pockets...supply lines are getting longer and harder to maintain.

George Carlin

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

Doug Coupland