I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly

Albert Camus

I like to skate on the other side of the ice.

Steven Wright

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

Paul Twitchell

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

Harriet Braiker

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.

King Hussein I

I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.

Garrett Morris

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.

Bille August

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

Kahlil Gibran

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Mahatma Gandhi