"The brutal reality of politics would probably be intolerable without drugs."
Thompson

“Beauty will save the world.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 — 1891)

 dischuckin wrote:
Bravo!

I'd also add worry is a waste of happiness. Smile, and you're in heaven! - Or, be a smile-millionaire!

Worry is a waste of imagination. - Walt Disney

Don't know about favorite but certainly unfortunate...

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

There indeed are people - open-minded - who regard anyone as their friend, at first at least. - To me, this seems to be a "rare" gift, as they seem to be coming from an opposite side of the "usual" spectrum (i.e. someone has to "earn" my friendship in the first place, ...or else I shoot, or bomb 'em).

*sweat-smile*

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 

“A friend to me has no race, no class and belongs to no minority. My friendships are formed out of affection, mutual respect and a feeling of having something in common. These are eternal values that cannot be classified.”⁣

Frank Sinatra

A side to him I didn't know about.

"A conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words"

Dr. Winston O'Boogie

 Steve wrote:

Wow, that just does not sound like something Zappa would say...God forbid, peace?

"None of us have the promise of tomorrow. God forbid this is my last day on this beautiful earth, it won't be spent listening to some news person telling me how rotten we are, how rotten life is, heck no, I'm going out and seeing how beautiful life is. As humans, our time on this planet is very limited...Turn off, tune out and turn on your life. Peace"

~Frank Zappa

"All ... are equal but some ... are more equal than others."

George Orwell.

To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation.
Fernando Pessoa

"A Doctor a day keeps the apple away..". - unknown

"With gratitude, optimism is sustainable"
Michael J. Fox

We can make our minds
so like still water
that beings gather about us
that they may see,
it may be, their own images,
and live for a moment with a clearer,
perhaps even with a fiercer life
because of our quiet,
our silence.

"When I was a kid my acne was so bad blind people kept trying to read my face"

Rodney Dangerfield

“Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make others happy.”

~ Charlie Chaplin

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

- Walter Gretzky to his son Wayne 'The Great' Gretzky 

“To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”

– Michel de Montaigne