Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
Lucille Ball

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
Margaret Mead

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Margaret Mead

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
Margaret Mead

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
Plutarch

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
Swami Vivekananda

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
George Bernard Shaw

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
George Bernard Shaw

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.
Rush Limbaugh

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.
Bette Davis

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
Bette Davis

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
Bill Maher

Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?
Bill Maher

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
Lee Iacocca

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
Rainer Maria Rilke