We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.

B. B. King

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

Norman Douglas

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Charles Caleb Colton

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

Ivan Reitman

True life lies in laughter, love and work.

Elbert Hubbard

The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.

John Podhoretz

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

Carroll O'Connor

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.

Leland Stanford

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

Marcel Proust

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Michelangelo

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

Andre Gide

I think the question for him is, how is a faithless person to cope with life. This is where he believes he can find something upon which to establish a literary career. You know, don't you, how often he talks of Yeats? This goes way back, to when he was very young.

Kenzaburo Oe