I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Don Marquis

When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.

Lynn Johnston

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

Marty Feldman

I've never had an intelligent conversation with a beautiful woman. But then, I've never had an intelligent conversation. Or talked to a beautiful woman.

Bauvard

I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

Yo-Yo Ma

It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have curiosity? Is it because they know they're classical? With classical things the Lord finished the job. Ordinary ugly people know they're deficient and they go on looking for the pieces.

Penelope Gilliatt

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

...let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear. . .is fear itself. . .nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.N.B.: Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, First ina

When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down.

Louise Brown

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

Hosea Ballou