One word of caution—be careful how much you listen to the advice of others when in a deep pit of despair.

Thankfulness opens the door and ushers in peace and joy like a blessed breeze on a hot and humid Louisiana summer day.

When you fail, you can resist correction or cooperate in your recovery and future success.

Diligence and hard work sensitize you to recognize opportunity.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

How could we have unearth our greatest potential without adversity?

...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away the name Punishment made the thing infinite.

One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know nothing, of his future you know less."

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to put the work in!!

Stick a fork in him. He's done.

If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.

Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.

When history calls, history calls.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.