Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

Beyonce Knowles

So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

Sheryl Crow

You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little too much like Pablo. You couldn't wait for the real Peasant Leader to arrive and he might have too many peasant characteristics when he did. So you had to manifacture one. At that, from what he had seen of Campesino, with his black beard, his thick negroid lips, and his feverish, staring eyes, he thought he might give almost as much trouble as a real peasant leader. The last time he had seen him he seemed to have gotten to believe his own publicity and think he was a peasant.

Ernest Hemingway

My dad has more sparkly stuff than most men.

Georgia Jagger

When I came out of anesthesia, I wanted two things: my husband and my dog. They wouldn't let the dog in the recovery room.

Sandy Nathan

All that existed was Jace; all she felt, hoped, breathed, wanted, and saw was Jace. Nothing else mattered.

Cassandra Clare

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us -- avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Francesco Petrarch

To lead people walk behind them.

LaoTzu

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

Christopher Marlowe

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost --the lost valleys of the imagination.

Alexander Cockburn