People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

Money is not the first step to becoming a great achiever. Your ideas determine the cost you will need to pay. So if you have no ideas, you can't know the amount you will need!

The science of public happiness was how Keynes saw his work as an economist.

Letting you go was a mistake.but now i have to wait for you rest of my life cause I can not afford to repeat my mistake

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.

Democrats and progressives do well when the voter turnout is high. Republicans do well when the voter turnout is low.

A poem is no place for an idea.

Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.

I don't think I'm a very good businessman. I act too much with my heart.

Either we shake one another's hands in joy at he victory of Islam in the world, or all of us will turn to eternal life, and martyrdom. In both cases, victory and success are ours.