What Interests You

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

--Katharine Hepburn

Peace Comes First

It's Madison Avenue's task to make you think you can spend your way into someone's heart at Christmas. That's fine, but it's not true. No one who can be bought is worth buying. That's especially true where romantic love is concerned. Besides, this is the season of peace. For any real friend or lover or relative, your peace of mind comes first.

--Ben Stein

You Must

When the true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message: "You must change your life."

--Ursula K. LeGuin

Temporary Interruption

Even a temporary interruption of a longstanding habit can inspire growth, even transformation.

--Brian Donohue

Women & Men

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

--Edgar Watson Howe

Answers Inside

The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.

--Marshall McLuhan

Risking Our Persons

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

--William James

Ass Smell

If a lot of dogs are on the beach, the first thing they do is smell each other's ass. The information that's gotten somehow makes pacifists out of all of them. I've thought, "If only we smelled each other's asses, there wouldn't be any war."

--Dustin Hoffman

Drunk God

Don't you know there ain't no devil.
There's just God when he's drunk.

--Tom Waits

Row Row Row

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

--Hunter S. Thompson

Devil's Boredom

It is wonderful how much good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

--Helen Keller

That Takes Religion

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

--Steven Weinberg

Murder

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

--Napoleon Bonaparte

Short of Experts

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

--Mark Twain