To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness; though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

George Orwell

To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.

Dejan Stojanovic

Life always gets harder toward the summit - the cold increases, the responsibility increases

Friedrich Nietzsche

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

Roger Kahn

Poetry is the deification of reality.

Edith Sitwell

I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.

Yakov Smirnoff

If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.

Paulo Coelho

What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. He must have the passion of a lover.

Arthur Symons

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Wayne Birmingham

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

e. e. cummings

The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

Fabrizio Moreira

It is only through timidity that states are lost.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)