Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it.

Pete Seeger

Some people never find it, some only pretend, but I just want to live happily ever after every now and then.

Jimmy Buffett

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

Todd Solondz

Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.

Clarice Lispector

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

David Hare

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Sir Winston Churchill

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

John Fowles

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

Karl Kraus

I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.

Abraham Lincoln

People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.

Kurt Vonnegut

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

Emma Goldman