Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Norman Vincent Peale

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.

Edward Abbey

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Gustave Flaubert

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

Walter Gropius

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Stephen Hawking

Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who speak truth to power but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.

Thomas Sowell

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

Captain Beefheart

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Spike Milligan

I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

Ian MacKaye

To be what no one ever was,To be what everyone has been:Freedom is the mean of thoseExtremes that fence all effort in.

Mark Van Doren

I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.

Isabelle Adjani