You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One of the great attractions of patriotism it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Aldous Huxley

I am sure now that life is not what it is purported to be and that nature, in the canny words of the Scotch theologue, 'is not as natural as it looks.

Loren Eiseley

Being in 'Us Weekly' does not make you famous.

Bradley Cooper

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

Mark Twain

Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause.

Ronald Reagan

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.

Julie Burchill

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

Mary Kay Ash

I am not willing to risk the lives of German soldiers for countries whose names we cannot spell properly.

Volker Ruhe

Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

Jodi Picoult