It is a wise person that adapts themselves to all contingencies; it's the fool who always struggles like a swimmer against the current.

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried

Thomas Jefferson

Since this is the age of science, not religion, psychiatrists are our rabbis, heroin is our pork, and the addict is the unclean person.

Thomas Szasz

My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports... and life.

Alexander Ludwig

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

Thomas Sowell

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Marcus Aurelius

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

Marcellinus Ammianus

When it comes down to it, it's about who you know, and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age, whether you're hot or not, whether the studio is into you or not.

Marlee Matlin

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Mal Pancoast

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

John Ashbery

There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness -- her selfishness, in short -- is a reproach to the American way of life.

Erica Jong

Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

Edward Moore

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Zora Neale Hurston