It's not a slam at you when people are rude -- it's a slam at the people they've met before.

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

Karl Lagerfeld

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

Abraham Maslow

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.

Chinua Achebe

So as this only point among the rest remaineth sure and certain, namely, that nothing is certain.

Plato

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Barbara Bush

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

Mark Twain

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

Eva Green

The single harmony produced by all the heavenly bodies singing and dancing together springs from one source and ends by achieving one purpose, and has rightly bestowed the name not of disordered but of ordered universe upon the whole.

Aristotle

Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

What a pity we don't pursue the salvation of humans with the same verve we pursue the salvation of animals

Source Unknown

I now saw, with great dismay, that what I had been carrying all this time was not a bowl but a book. This ruined everything.

C.S. Lewis

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

Johnny Depp