The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.

The horizon of many people is a circle with zero radius which they call their point of view.

Albert Einstein

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.

Michael Crawford

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Will Rogers

War remains the decisive human failure.

John Kenneth Galbraith

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.

Georg Buchner

Love didn't grow very well in place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.

Stephen King

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Horace Mann

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

Robert Benchley

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

Tori Amos

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.

Salvatore Quasimodo

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

George Robert Gissing