So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.

Jerry Leiber

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

James Baker

No one knows what he can do till he tries.

Publilius Syrus

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

John Lithgow

You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

Joel Osteen

Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

Albert Brooks

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

John Huston Finley

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.

Diane Wakoski

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

Bertolt Brecht

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

Vernon Howard