Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

Dalai Lama

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Marian Mountain

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.

Sir Winston Churchill

It is better to tell the truth and face the punishment, than to lie and face the consequences.

Anthony Liccione

We saw ourselves as anthropologists from the twenty-first century inhabiting a time module set somewhere in the dark ages of the 1960s. On this space colony we were attempting to create a new paganism and a new dedication to life as art.

Timothy Leary

I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.

David Cassidy

Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

Bernard Baruch

We are enjoying sluggish times and not enjoying them very much.

George Bush

Life is about timing.

Carl Lewis

The lot is cast into the heap, but the whole disposing there of is of the Lord.

Bible

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

Johnny Depp