I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.

We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the book-worm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. How terrible is the one fact of beauty!

Oliver Wendell Holmes

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Maxwell Maltz

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

William James

I love taking you inside a world that you're not apart of and showing how actually works.

Jerry Bruckheimer

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

Serj Tankian

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

Oswald Chambers

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity the sound achieved by the pig.

Alfred Hitchcock

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.

Jay Inslee

You know, I've got wrinkles on my forehead and smile lines, but what's wrong with that? I love to smile.

Jennifer Aniston