Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

Jim Morrison

It is a fact that you project what you are.

Norman Vincent Peale

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Helen Keller

The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.

Ernest Hemingway

My father used to say superior people never make long visits.

Marianne Moore

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

Godfrey Reggio

Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Take a simple idea and take it seriously.

Charlie Munger

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

Maynard James Keenan

That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his praise comes to him in the form of a salary check. In Hollywood the average writer is not young, not honest, not brave, and a bit overdressed. But he is darn good company, which book writers as a rule are not. He is better than what he writes. Most book writers are not as good.

Raymond Chandler

Then, what's the matter?' I wonder, in fact, how many times I have said that or something equal to it to a woman passing palely through my life. Love is what this means, of course. Or at least, second best: surrender. Or at the least, take some time regaling me with why you won't, and maybe by the end you will.

Richard Ford