The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions.

Albert Einstein

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

William Butler Yeats

You may have your suspicions, your fears, you may even believe there is something, somewhere, terribly, drastically wrong, but because someone else is in charge, because there is a part of the system above you which you don't know, you don't question it, you even distrust your own doubts.

Graham Swift

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. There is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Frank Zappa

I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.

Trey Anastasio

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Claude A. Helvetius

For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.

Steve Guttenberg

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

Denis Diderot

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

Henry David Thoreau