I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

Joseph Conrad

You can't be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river.

Jim Harrison

Life is like a s--t sandwich. The more bread you eat, the less s--t you gotta take.

Peter Trudelle

Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.

Stephen King

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Christopher Hitchens

My art and profession is to live.

Michel de Montaigne

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

Abraham Lincoln

Research clearly shows us that the earlier women think about maintaining their bone mass and take the steps to do so, the better their health will be in the long run.

Lois Capps

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl.

James Barrie, Peter Pan

I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US.

Mario Monti

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

Edgar Rice Burroghs