No sacrifice short of individual liberty, individual self-respect, and individual enterprise is too great a price to pay for permanent peace.

Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Mark Twain

I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.

Randy Harrison

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

George Eliot

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

Ashley Judd

Every thing that grows Holds in perfection but a little moment

William Shakespeare

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.

Fredrik Bajer

The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.

Terry Pratchett

There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

David Byrne

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

Jerzy Kosinski

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.

Margaret J. Wheatley

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

Anthony Burgess