The Simpsons

"No children have ever meddled with the Republican Party and lived to tell about it."

- Sideshow Bob, 'The Simpsons,' created by Matt Groening

Jim Carrey

“I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'”

- Jim Carrey, actor and comedian

Buddha

“To understand everything is to forgive everything”

 - Buddha

Steve Moakler

"How many times do you set love free before you know it's supposed to be?"

- Steve Moakler, 'Run'

Katherine Anne Porter

"There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own."

- Katherine Anne Porter, journalist, author, activist

Bertrand Russell

"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin - more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man."

- Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, historian

George Bernard Shaw

“I want to be all used up when I die.”

- George Bernard Shaw, critic and playwright

Bob Hope

“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.”

- Bob Hope, comedian and actor

Francis Bacon

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."

- Francis Bacon, philosopher, statesman, scientist, author, lawyer

Laurence J. Peter

"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."

- Laurence J. Peter, teacher and writer

Frank Turner

"You're not designed to be alone."

- Frank Turner, 'Reasons Not To Be An Idiot'

Albert Camus

"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question."

- Albert Camus, author, philosopher and journalist

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, philosopher and intellectual

Mahatma Gandhi

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

- Mahatma Gandhi, activist, political and spiritual leader

Norman Vincent Peale

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale, clergyman and author

Sara Teasdale

“It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise”

- Sara Teasdale, poet

Voltaire

“If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.”

- Voltaire, writer and philosopher

Carolina Liar

"So soon you will learn to forget
Bad times, the rules and regrets
One day they won't reach out for you."

- Carolina Liar, 'Drown'

Steve Jobs

"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do."

- Steve Jobs, inventor and entrepreneur (co-founder of Apple Inc.)

Ronald Reagan

"Don't be afraid to see what you see."

- Ronald Reagan, former US president

Black Elk

"It is in the darkness of their eyes, that men get lost."

- Black Elk, 'Black Elk Speaks'

Charlotte Bronte

"It is not violence that best overcomes hate — nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury."

- Charlotte Bronte, "Jane Eyre"

Robert Frost

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost, poet

Albert Einstein

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

- Albert Einstein, physicist

Sarah McLachlan

"You pick me up and brush me off and tell me I'm okay, sometimes that's just what we need to get us through the day."

- Sarah McLachlan, 'Push'

Oscar Wilde

“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Kurt Vonnegut

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."

- Kurt Vonnegut, author

Pearl S. Buck

"There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness."

- Pearl S. Buck, author and missionary

Horace

"If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself."

- Horace, lyric poet and satirist

Aristotle

"Happiness depends on ourselves."

- Aristotle, philosopher

Dr. Seuss

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."

- Dr. Seuss, author and cartoonist