It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

C.S. Lewis

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour it's based on femininity.

Marilyn Monroe

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.

Billie Holiday

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

George Orwell

Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.

Henry Anatole Grunwald

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

Mary Chesnut

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We know that Europe loves President Obama. He had adoring crowds. The press loves Obama. The question is how will this date end? Okay? The question is, to what end? Why do they love President Obama? They love his personal story, they love his wife. North Korea, China and Russia don't really care about Michelle's arms and, you know, whether they gave an iPod to the Queen, okay?

Laura Ingraham

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's a beauty in being part of a band, when there's equality and trust.

Scott Weiland

That man is idle who can do something better

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.

David R. Brower