The refinement of an individual is measured by the yardstick of sense control.
Sai Baba
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
George Jean Nathan
Man of all the animals is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
James Madison
I believe you can joke about anything.
George Carlin
I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and I'm in an office with them. So in a weird way - I know I haven't birthed a child - I feel that I'm a part of creating a family. It's a tribe. I love that word.
Drew Barrymore
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
Lao Tzu
Be amusing: never tell unkind stories, above all never tell long ones.
Benjamin Disraeli
Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are the more you're forced back on your own imagination.
Stephen King
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is one grows out of people and the only thing is to face it.
W. Somerset Maugham
