No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Pablo Picasso

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

Honore de Balzac

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

Source Unknown

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.

Francois (Pierre Guillaume) Guiz

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

Christina Aguilera

I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them.

Susan Orlean

The knowledge that unites love and wisdom, that uplifts the spirit is spirituality. The knowledge which gives you a broad vision and a big heart is spirituality.

Ravi Shankar (spiritual leader)

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

Leonardo da Vinci

I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.

Jim Carrey

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

Mike Tyson

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Erma Bombeck, If Life Is a Bowl