There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Meister Eckhart

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Steve Jobs

All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.

John Podhoretz

Convince a man of what he wants, and he'll move heaven and earth to get it.

Source Unknown

And I remind you of your mother now? I have got to look into a manlier cologne.

Cassandra Clare

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

Plato

I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies.

Jesse Eisenberg

Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.

Benjamin Disraeli

One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.

Terry Eagleton

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

Nelson Mandela

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Leo Buscaglia

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

Pete Townshend