"It's not the imbalances of life that will get you down-it's doing meaningless things that aren't taking you where you want to go."

“A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.”

Source : Hamilton Wright Mabie (1898). “Essays on Work and Culture”

“Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.”

“I'm always in favor of more glamour. I embarrass my children, I think. I am the lady in feathers in the car pool line.”

Source : "Truly Outrageous: Mia Sara (A.K.A. Sloane Peterson) on Fringe Jackets". Interview with Susan Cernek, www.glamour.com. September 16, 2009.

“Boys will be boys and girls will be girls, and if you want it any different you can join a Shubert chorus”

“Hollywood is more concerned about its male actors being in shape than its female actors.”

“Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? … The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.”

“Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals.”

“The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in the ears, a dizzinessor disturbance of balance. One arrives in the garden again, at nursery time, when the gentle animals are fed and in all the world there are only toys.”

Source : William H. Gass (1978). “The world within the word: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf