No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth man would only have four years left to live.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future tradition has placed 10000 men to guard the past.

An obstacle is not a discouragement. It may become one but only with our own consent. So long as we refuse to be discouraged we cannot be discouraged.

When we lose someoe we love our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

We can be born thus more than once; and each birth brings us a little nearer to our God.

I have the kind of life where I can take my kids on trips with me. I can involve them in my work. I've always avoided politics because I didn't want to make commitments that would take me away from raising these children.

No matter how you choose to act, that is the person you will become.

I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.

Before, I was more concerned with getting on the radio, like many young artists.

The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch.

Musicals and horror movies are my two favorite genres because they're about extremes.

Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.

Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it's designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it's done by some of the world's largest corporations.

It's a wonderful city and every American has enjoyed New Orleans in one way or the other.

Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art.

Obviously, I'm very happy when one of my films becomes a blockbuster. However, after a point, I want to switch off. I have learnt to just move on. Too much pressure can make you wrong.

The 90% physical training is to develop that 90% mental attitude.

I've been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what we've done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution.

Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.

My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Chabrier, who used to spend the summer months in nearby Membrolle.

My ideology is not connected to the Palestinians.

I guess one of the ways that karma works is that it finds out what you are most afraid of and then makes that happen eventually.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high-school class is running the country.

Once our carrier fleet went all nuclear in 2005, we went from having two aircraft carrier homeports on the East Coast to one.

I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

Some of you may remember me as the 'Doritos Girl' from that Super Bowl commercial a while back, but I've been lucky enough to have gotten a few more credits under my belt since then!

The biggest challenge in my life is getting all these kids raised. I've helped with nieces, stepchildren and my own son, so the biggest challenge is making sure the kids are raised and finding enough quality time with them.

There was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it's not. We're in the middle of chaos. It may calm down. But the alternative is that there's a total meltdown of the system and that it becomes unusable. That would be a catastrophe.

I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer.