There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

A smile is the universal welcome.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.

A piece of art only succeeds when it's creator...possesses the belief that brings it into being

Only one thing that you can see and hear that is beautiful and frightening at the same time, and that is a thunder storm.

Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets.

I'm always too fat. And I always look terrible. But I love the theater of the red carpet.

Who would thought only of themselves and kill their race? You would hate other people if you don't want to stay who you are.

May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?

I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am.

Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.