Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.

Patti Smith

Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

Jean de la Bruyere

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

Abel Stevens

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

Raymond E. Feist

Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.

John Mayer

At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of geography and colonial history should no longer determine who gets the fish.

Derek Wall

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Sports isn't just a part of life. It's not life itself.

Stedman Graham

I had the opportunity to go to law school, and my dad, who was an accountant, couldn't believe I wanted to walk away from that and start cooking.

Curtis Stone