Bill Cosby Quotes

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
~ Bill Cosby

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
~ Bill Cosby

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
~ Bill Cosby

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.
~ Bill Cosby

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."
~ Bill Cosby

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
~ Bill Cosby

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
~ Bill Cosby

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
~ Bill Cosby

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
~ Bill Cosby

Gray hair is God's graffiti.
~ Bill Cosby

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
~ Bill Cosby

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
~ Bill Cosby

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.
~ Bill Cosby

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
~ Bill Cosby

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
~ Bill Cosby

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.
~ Bill Cosby

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
~ Bill Cosby

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
~ Bill Cosby

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
~ Bill Cosby

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
~ Bill Cosby

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
~ Bill Cosby

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.
~ Bill Cosby

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
~ Bill Cosby

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
~ Bill Cosby

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
~ Bill Cosby

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
~ Bill Cosby

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
~ Bill Cosby

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
~ Bill Cosby

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.
~ Bill Cosby

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
~ Bill Cosby

The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
~ Bill Cosby

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
~ Bill Cosby

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
~ Bill Cosby

Old is always fifteen years from now.
~ Bill Cosby

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
~ Bill Cosby

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.
~ Bill Cosby

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
~ Bill Cosby

When you become senile, you won't know it.
~ Bill Cosby

Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.
~ Bill Cosby

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
~ Bill Cosby

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.
~ Bill Cosby

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.
~ Bill Cosby

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
~ Bill Cosby

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.
~ Bill Cosby

I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.
~ Bill Cosby

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
~ Bill Cosby

Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.
~ Bill Cosby

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
~ Bill Cosby

Dalai Lama Quotes

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
~ Dalai Lama

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
~ Dalai Lama

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
~ Dalai Lama

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
~ Dalai Lama

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
~ Dalai Lama

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
~ Dalai Lama

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
~ Dalai Lama

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
~ Dalai Lama

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
~ Dalai Lama

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
~ Dalai Lama

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
~ Dalai Lama

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
~ Dalai Lama

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
~ Dalai Lama

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
~ Dalai Lama

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
~ Dalai Lama

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
~ Dalai Lama

Sleep is the best meditation.
~ Dalai Lama

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
~ Dalai Lama

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
~ Dalai Lama

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
~ Dalai Lama

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
~ Dalai Lama

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
~ Dalai Lama

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
~ Dalai Lama

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
~ Dalai Lama

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
~ Dalai Lama

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
~ Dalai Lama

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
~ Dalai Lama

Colin Powell Quotes

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
~ Colin Powell

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
~ Colin Powell

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
~ Colin Powell

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
~ Colin Powell

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.
~ Colin Powell

Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
~ Colin Powell

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
~ Colin Powell

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
~ Colin Powell

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
~ Colin Powell

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
~ Colin Powell

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
~ Colin Powell

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.
~ Colin Powell

You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.
~ Colin Powell

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
~ Colin Powell

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.
~ Colin Powell

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
~ Colin Powell

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.
~ Colin Powell

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
~ Colin Powell

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
~ Colin Powell

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.
~ Colin Powell

Get mad, then get over it.
~ Colin Powell

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
~ Colin Powell

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
~ Colin Powell

Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families.
~ Colin Powell

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.
~ Colin Powell

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.
~ Colin Powell

I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.
~ Colin Powell

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.
~ Colin Powell

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.
~ Colin Powell

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.
~ Colin Powell

Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.
~ Colin Powell

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
~ Colin Powell

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
~ Colin Powell

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
~ Colin Powell

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
~ Colin Powell

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
~ Colin Powell

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, isn't that wonderful?'
~ Colin Powell

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
~ Colin Powell

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
~ Colin Powell

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
~ Colin Powell

It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'
~ Colin Powell

It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.
~ Colin Powell

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.
~ Colin Powell

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
~ Colin Powell

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'
~ Colin Powell

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.
~ Colin Powell

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
~ Colin Powell

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
~ Colin Powell

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.
~ Colin Powell

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
~ Colin Powell

Experts often possess more data than judgment.
~ Colin Powell

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.
~ Colin Powell

C. S. Lewis Quotes

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
~ C. S. Lewis

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
~ C. S. Lewis

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
~ C. S. Lewis

We are what we believe we are.
~ C. S. Lewis

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
~ C. S. Lewis

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
~ C. S. Lewis

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
~ C. S. Lewis

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
~ C. S. Lewis

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
~ C. S. Lewis

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
~ C. S. Lewis

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
~ C. S. Lewis

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
~ C. S. Lewis

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
~ C. S. Lewis

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
~ C. S. Lewis

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
~ C. S. Lewis

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
~ C. S. Lewis

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
~ C. S. Lewis

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
~ C. S. Lewis

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
~ C. S. Lewis

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
~ C. S. Lewis

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
~ C. S. Lewis

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
~ C. S. Lewis

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
~ C. S. Lewis

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
~ C. S. Lewis

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
~ C. S. Lewis

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
~ C. S. Lewis

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
~ C. S. Lewis

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
~ C. S. Lewis

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
~ C. S. Lewis

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
~ C. S. Lewis

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
~ C. S. Lewis

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
~ C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
~ C. S. Lewis

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
~ C. S. Lewis

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
~ C. S. Lewis

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
~ C. S. Lewis

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
~ C. S. Lewis

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
~ C. S. Lewis

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
~ C. S. Lewis

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
~ C. S. Lewis

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
~ C. S. Lewis

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
~ C. S. Lewis

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
~ C. S. Lewis

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
~ C. S. Lewis

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
~ C. S. Lewis

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
~ C. S. Lewis

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
~ C. S. Lewis

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
~ C. S. Lewis

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
~ C. S. Lewis

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
~ C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
~ C. S. Lewis

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
~ C. S. Lewis

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."
~ C. S. Lewis

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
~ C. S. Lewis

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
~ C. S. Lewis

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
~ C. S. Lewis

Audrey Hepburn Quotes

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.' 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'! 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
~ Audrey Hepburn 

Everything I learned I learned from the movies. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess! 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

If I get married, I want to be very married. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 


I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

Paris is always a good idea. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing. 
~ Audrey Hepburn 

Bertrand Russell Quotes

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
~ Bertrand Russell

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
~ Bertrand Russell

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
~ Bertrand Russell

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
~ Bertrand Russell

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
~ Bertrand Russell

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
~ Bertrand Russell

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
~ Bertrand Russell

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
~ Bertrand Russell

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
~ Bertrand Russell

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
~ Bertrand Russell

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
~ Bertrand Russell

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
~ Bertrand Russell

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
~ Bertrand Russell

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
~ Bertrand Russell

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
~ Bertrand Russell

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
~ Bertrand Russell

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
~ Bertrand Russell

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
~ Bertrand Russell

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
~ Bertrand Russell

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
~ Bertrand Russell

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
~ Bertrand Russell

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
~ Bertrand Russell

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
~ Bertrand Russell

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
~ Bertrand Russell

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
~ Bertrand Russell

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
~ Bertrand Russell

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
~ Bertrand Russell

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
~ Bertrand Russell

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
~ Bertrand Russell

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
~ Bertrand Russell

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
~ Bertrand Russell

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
~ Bertrand Russell

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
~ Bertrand Russell

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
~ Bertrand Russell

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
~ Bertrand Russell

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
~ Bertrand Russell

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
~ Bertrand Russell

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
~ Bertrand Russell

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
~ Bertrand Russell

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
~ Bertrand Russell

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
~ Bertrand Russell

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
~ Bertrand Russell

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
~ Bertrand Russell

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
~ Bertrand Russell

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
~ Bertrand Russell

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
~ Bertrand Russell

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
~ Bertrand Russell

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
~ Bertrand Russell

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
~ Bertrand Russell

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
~ Bertrand Russell

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
~ Bertrand Russell

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
~ Bertrand Russell

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
~ Bertrand Russell

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
~ Bertrand Russell

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
~ Bertrand Russell

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
~ Bertrand Russell

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
~ Bertrand Russell

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
~ Bertrand Russell

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
~ Bertrand Russell

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
~ Bertrand Russell

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
~ Bertrand Russell

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
~ Bertrand Russell

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
~ Bertrand Russell

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
~ Bertrand Russell

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
~ Bertrand Russell

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
~ Bertrand Russell

All movements go too far.
~ Bertrand Russell

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
~ Bertrand Russell

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
~ Bertrand Russell

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
~ Bertrand Russell

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
~ Bertrand Russell

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
~ Bertrand Russell

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
~ Bertrand Russell

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
~ Bertrand Russell

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
~ Bertrand Russell

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
~ Bertrand Russell

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
~ Bertrand Russell

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
~ Bertrand Russell

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
~ Bertrand Russell

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
~ Bertrand Russell

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
~ Bertrand Russell

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
~ Bertrand Russell

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
~ Bertrand Russell

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
~ Bertrand Russell

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
~ Bertrand Russell

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
~ Bertrand Russell

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
~ Bertrand Russell

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
~ Bertrand Russell

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
~ Bertrand Russell

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
~ Bertrand Russell

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
~ Bertrand Russell

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
~ Bertrand Russell

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
~ Bertrand Russell

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
~ Bertrand Russell

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
~ Bertrand Russell

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Bertrand Russell

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
~ Bertrand Russell

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
~ Bertrand Russell

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
~ Bertrand Russell

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
~ Bertrand Russell

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
~ Bertrand Russell

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
~ Bertrand Russell

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
~ Bertrand Russell

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
~ Bertrand Russell

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
~ Bertrand Russell

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
~ Bertrand Russell

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
~ Bertrand Russell

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Bertrand Russell

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
~ Bertrand Russell

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
~ Bertrand Russell

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
~ Bertrand Russell

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
~ Bertrand Russell

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
~ Bertrand Russell

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
~ Bertrand Russell

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
~ Bertrand Russell

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
~ Bertrand Russell

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
~ Bertrand Russell

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
~ Bertrand Russell

Sin is geographical.
~ Bertrand Russell

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
~ Bertrand Russell

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
~ Bertrand Russell

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
~ Bertrand Russell

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
~ Bertrand Russell

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
~ Bertrand Russell

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
~ Bertrand Russell

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
~ Bertrand Russell

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
~ Bertrand Russell

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
~ Bertrand Russell

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
~ Bertrand Russell