In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

Pierre Salinger

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

Laurence Sterne

We make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

Ezra Pound

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

Edward Sapir

Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.

Paul Ryan

Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.

Bertrand Russell

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

Sally Ride

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Vernon Howard

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Paul Scherer

Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.

Philipus A. Paracelsus

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some

Charles Dickens