The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

Faith is that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.

Source Unknown

Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.

Matt Groening

Easier to keep changing your life than to live it.

James Richardson

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Tennyson

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.

Chief Joseph

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it cost them.

John Updike

When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list, I had a small rush of 'I've made it!' But the next morning, it occurred to me I didn't know what it was, so I called my agent and asked what being a 'New York Times' bestselling author really meant. He informed me that I was now a thousand pound gorilla.

Lisa Gardner

I grew up skateboarding it was fun. I didn't think about money, I didn't know how much professional skateboarders made. I just knew that if I became a professional skateboarder, I would achieve a lot and get to travel and do these great things.

Jason Lee

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

Steve Coogan

Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

Source Unknown

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Elbert Hubbard

I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

Brian Eno