The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.
Lenny Bruce

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
Amelia Earhart

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.
Bill Maher

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
Carl Jung

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.
Jack Nicholson

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.
Robert Collier

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
Richard Bach

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.
Johnny Depp

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.
Chuck Palahniuk

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Epicurus

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
Jean-Paul Sartre

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
Jean-Paul Sartre

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
Emo Philips

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.
Ron Paul

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
Albert Camus