Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence.

Christopher Hitchens

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Baruch Spinoza

But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.

Rachael Leigh Cook

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

Gene Tierney

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

David Coverdale

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

G. K. Chesterton

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

Johnny Cash

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Proverb

There you are. A simple commandment. Not ten of them, just one: 'Thou shalt not eat.' (Personally, I wish the very first edict from God hadn't involved dieting, don't you?)

Liz Curtis Higgs

Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

Jos

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Frank Zappa