A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

– Thomas Mann

If you don’t give up on something you truly believe in, you will find a way.

– Roy T. Bennet

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

– Brendan Gill

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

– Mel Brooks

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

– George Bernard Shaw

The greatest revenge is massive success.

– Les Brow

To overcome fear is the quickest way to gain your self-confidence.

– Roy T. Bennett

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.

– Barack Obama

Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things.

– Kenneth Branagh

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

– Frida Kahlo

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

– Barack Obama

The Viagra commercial says «make sure your heart is healthy enough for sex». That’s a really deep question if you think about it in a more metaphorical way.

I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

– Lalu Prasad Yadav

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

– Mark Twain

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.

– Hafez

My first band was called Nubert Circus, a very embarrassing, dumb name. It means nothing. We were kind of grunge. I would say we were more funny punk, a lot of songs about food and stuff like that.

– Phil Elverum

All I really need to know… I learned in kindergarten.

– Robert Fulghum

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

– Jean de La Fontaine

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

– Thomas Jefferson

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

– Henny Youngman

Drawing is the only thing I’ve found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It started as something that relaxed me, but now it’s a struggle because I’m pushing myself. The day-to-day sketching is fraught.

– Peter Capaldi

I like people that enjoy life, ’cause I do the same.

– Lil Wayne

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

– Henny Youngman

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

– Douglas Adams

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

– Duke Ellington