"It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good."

-- Paul Simon

#Simple Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“On this special Fathers Day, we'd like to wish all of you a very Happy Birthday.”
“She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.”
“When something in life occurs that is troubling, we are supposed to not dwell on the thing itself. Instead, the focus should be on our obligation to turn this bad thing into something beautiful. It's not easy. But, if you focus your creative energy away from self-torture and onto â€˜how you can turn this into something beautifulâ€™ pretty remarkable things start to happen.”
“Democracy must learn to defend itself.”
“Indeed, my conclusion from a lifetime of psychohistorical study of childhood and society is that the history of humanity is founded upon the abuse of children. Just as family therapists today find that child abuse often functions to hold families together as a way of solving their emotional problems, so, too, the routine assault of children has been society's most effective way of maintaining its collective emotional homeostasis.”
“Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on”
“Even at the timeâ€”twenty years oldâ€”I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at an office desk ten hours a day. There is no particular daring in this vow, but I have not broken it and shall not do so. The wisdom of my grandfathers sat in my head: we are born for the pleasure of work, fighting, love, we are born for that and nothing else. (Guy de Maupassant)”
“Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.”

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