I found there was only one way to look thin, hang out with fat people.
—Rodney Dangerfield (American Comedian)
Freud’s prescription for personal happiness as consisting of work and love must be taken with the proviso that the work has to be loved, and the love has to be worked at.
—Sydney J. Harris (American Essayist, Drama Critic)
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
—Anne Lamott (American Author)
Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.
—Naomi Shihab Nye (Arab-American Poet, Author)
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
—George Carlin (American Comedian)
Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails, And each by turns his aching heart assails.
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (Roman Poet)
In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.
—Cole Porter (American Songwriter)
Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
—Bruce Lee (American Martial Artist)
Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.
—Paul Samuelson (American Economist)
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
—Henry Kissinger (American Diplomat)
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
—Benjamin Whichcote (British Anglican Priest)