The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all commentary and that he wanted hard news.

Sydney Schanberg

I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

The problem with those bumper stickers that warn against tailgating, is that I have to get really close to the person's car to read them.

John Alejandro King, The Covert

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

Robert Fitzgerald

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Frank Herbert

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

Edward O. Wilson

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Jean Rostand

Nowadays, a penny saved is ridiculous!

Shelby Friedman

I came from a real tough neighborhood. In the local restaurant I sat down and had broken leg of lamb.

Rodney Dangerfield

When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.

Al Yankovic

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Desmond Tutu