How can this cosmic religious experience be communicated from man to man, if it cannot lead to a definite conception of God or to a theology? It seems to me that the most important function of art and of science is to arouse and keep alive this feeling in those who are receptive.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Max Beerbohm

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

Jesse Jackson

The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.'

Billy Gardell

Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.

Martha Graham

Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.

Oliver Goldsmith

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

W. Clement Stone

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

Dennis Rodman

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

John L. Phillips

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Rita Mae Brown

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Oscar Wilde

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Horace