My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. Everybody drinks water.

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

Leonard Maltin

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.

St. Bernard

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

Constance Baker Motley

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

Lou Reed

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

Tom Cochrane

You're too young to decide to live forever.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Learning operatic roles is ongoing, and I find that I can learn on the train or subway, during a manicure, getting my hair done, and even while driving if I only look at the score at red lights.

Renee Fleming

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

Stefan Zweig

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Eustace Budgell

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

George H. W. Bush

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess

Henry Louis Mencken