There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?

I think within Japan there is talk about how there is the need to reassess the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance.

Lee Myung-bak

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

Jackie Gleason

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

John Barrymore

For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended,is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

Kahlil Gibran

Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.

David O. McKay

Hollywood makes prostitutes out of women and sissies out of men.

Source Unknown

I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.

Wallace Shawn

The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no improvement at all of the understanding, but only a perversity of it, not to mention that it serves most of them as a tool of vanity.

Immanuel Kant

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Thomas Carlyle

Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously believes that these things can every one of them , in all their tones and semi-tones, in all their blends and unions, be accurately represented by an arbitrary system of grunts and squeals. He believes that an ordinary civilized stockbroker can really produce out of his own inside noises which denote all the mysteries of memory and all the agonies of desire.

G. K. Chesterton

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

Ingmar Bergman

Men have differed in opinion, and been divided into parties by these opinions, from the first origin of societies; and in all governments where they have been permitted freely to think and to speak. the same political parties which now agitate the U.S. have existed through all time. Whether the power of the people, or that of the (best men; nobles) should prevail, were questions which kept the states of Greece and rome in eternal convulsions...

Thomas Jefferson