Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.

To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Blaise Pascal

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

Aldous Huxley

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

Aung San Suu Kyi

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this -- that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made -- not to understand -- but to feel -- as crime.

Edgar Allan Poe

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

Zig Ziglar

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

Emile M. Cioran

You never know the hurt others endure in this world behind the closed windows of their life, or the joy a simple act of kindness can bring.

Jennifer Skiff

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

John Lennon

If it is to be, it is up to me.

William H. Johnsen

I never viewed money as being 'my money' I always saw it as 'the money.' It's a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.

Louis C. K.

Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

Jim Rohn