What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.

James Allen

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Jesus Christ

A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

Lakhdar Brahimi

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

Lenny Bruce

It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.

W. H. Auden

Life is a drink and you get drunk when you're young.

Paul Weller

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.

John Cheever

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

Kahlil Gibran

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Maurice Chevalier

I told my doctor I broke my arm in two places. He told me to keep out of those places.

Rodney Dangerfield

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.

Norman Thomas