"I am kinder to my body. I don't try to prove anything to myself or others. I keep thinking about the need to go slower, gentler and maintain a sense of humor about it all."

-- Richard Simmons

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“Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet.”
“Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.”

Source : "The revival of Tory philosophy" by John Casey, www.spectator.co.uk. March 14, 2007.
“Someone on the internet referred to me as 'that horrible little man who's replacing Rob Lowe', which is hurtful, because I think of myself as a delightful little man.”
“The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.”
“If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.”
“First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict.”
“I have a friend who actually told me that she'd rather be dead than be fat. This is a woman who, if I order a sandwich at lunch, she'll order a salad. If I order a salad, she'll order half a cantaloupe. If I order half a cantaloupe, she'll order a cup of coffee. This bizarre contest continues until she's down to sucking on a mint-flavored toothpick. At this rate, her preference for dying over being fat could be a reality sooner than she thinks.”
“Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.”

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