He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.

The little man is still a man.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Jerry Gillies

There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Wayne Dyer

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

Chanakya

Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

John le Carre

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.

Guillaume Apollinaire

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.

Jane Austen

I think I'm a fun flatmate. I'm always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it's 12 people on one bus and I feel like I'm the one who's happy in the morning. I'm not a chaotic person, but I might slack off on doing the dishes from time to time.

Zooey Deschanel

One hundred years ago, our fathers retired the gods from politics. The Declaration of Independence is the grandest, the bravest, and the profoundest political document that was ever signed by the representatives of a people. It is the embodiment of physical and moral courage and of political wisdom.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

Charles Dickens

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

Eugenio Montale

If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one.

H. Ross Perot