-Do you think artists are supposed to be happy? -Everyone is supposed to be. -I said staunchly,and I knew that I was indeed an idiot and that was my destiny and I didn't mind it

Perfection of character consists in this; living each day as if it were the last, and spending each moment in peace.

Marcus Aurelius

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

Northrop Frye

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

One usually dies because one is alone, or because one has got into something over one's head. One often dies because one does not have the right alliances, because one is not given support. In Sicily the Mafia kills the servants of the State that the State has not been able to protect.

Giovanni Falcone

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

Mike Tyson

I am a Marxist... of the Groucho tendency.

Source Unknown

Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

Isaac Asimov

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

Ogden Nash

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Boris Yeltsin

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Babe Ruth

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

John Dryden