Surround yourself with positive people.

If a mute swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap?

Steven Wright

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

Mike Mills

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Confidence in the principles of an enemy must remain even during war, otherwise a peace could never be concluded; and hostilities would degenerate into a war of extermination since war in fact is but the sad resource employed in a state of nature in defence of rights; force standing there in lieu of juridical tribunals. Neither of the two parties can be accused of injustice, since for that purpose a juridical decision would be necessary. But here the event of a battle (as formerly the judgments of God) determines the justice of either party; since between states there cannot be a war of punishment no subordination existing between them. A war, therefore, which might cause the destruction of both parties at once, together with the annihilation of every right, would permit the conclusion of a perpetual peace only upon the vast burial-ground of the human species.

Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace

Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I watch the waves of the turbulent lake under our windows I sometimes feel I should like to go under them.

Mary Ann Todd Lincoln

It was amazing that during rehearsals, without any of the costume on, the character was there complete. It just happened. Half the time, I didn't know I was doing it.

Peter Mayhew

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

Lena Horne

If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.

Ben Carson

Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.

Friedrich Von Schlegel

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

William Saroyan

Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

Bobby McFerrin

I mean, sports are big, big, big business.

Phil Lesh