We contain an internal world which is just as active and complicated as the one we live in.
      Jonathan Miller

Men are my hobby; if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.
      Mae West

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
      African proverb

Money is human happiness in the abstract.
      Arthur Schopenhauer

If someone says "can't," that shows you what to do.
      John Cage

Never give in. Never. Never. Never. Never.
      Winston Churchill

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
      Federico Fellini

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
      Yogi Berra

Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.
      Frank Tyger

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more real to us.
      T.S. Eliot

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to t hink of myself as needy. I was deprived. Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime, but I have a great vocabulary.
      Jules Feiffer

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
      St. Augustine

I wish you all sorts of prosperity with a little more taste.
      Alain Rene Lesage

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?
      Henry James

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
      Russell Lynes

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
      Ranier Maria Rilke

Follow your bliss.
      Joseph Campbell

If the man and woman walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last reel, it adds $10 million to the box office.
      George Lucas, advice to Stephen Spielberg

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
      Spanish proverb

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
      Helen Keller

Don't be afraid to go on an occasional wild goose chase. That's what wild geese are for.

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
      Thomas Jefferson

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
      Joan Didion

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
      Jorge Luis Borges

When you make a world tolerable for yourself you make a world tolerable for others.
      Anais Nin

That I am totally devoid of sympathy for, or interest in, the world of groups is directly attributable to the fact that my two greatest needs and desires - smoking cigarettes and plotting revenge - are basically solitary pursuits.
      Fran Lebowitz

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
      Reggie Leach

This... reminds me of the way they used to weigh hogs in Texas. They would get a long plank, put it over a cross-bar, and somehow tie the hog on one end of the plank. They'd search all around till they found a stone that would balance the weight of the hog and they'd put that on the other end of the plank. Then they'd guess the weight of the stone.
      John Dewey

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
      William James

These quotes were loving lifted from several of the books by the late great Peter McWilliams. All of his books are available online for free at http://www.mcwilliams.com/.