The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head.

Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes. I would say a private paradise in the Caribbean. If you want culture and class, I would say Tuscany. If you want exotic, I would say Bangkok, Thailand.

Robin Leach

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Miguel de Cervantes

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

Ronald Reagan

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

Charles Schumer

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Francesco Guicciardini

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

Of one hundred persons who take up the spiritual life, eighty turn out to be charlatans, fifteen insane, and only five, maybe, get a glimpse of the real truth. Therefore beware.

Swami Vivekananda

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Henri Matisse

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

In the West, audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.

Chow Yun-Fat

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

Wayne Dyer

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

Martin Luther King Jr.