If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

The artist simply reveals, he doesn't explain. Freud tried to figure this out because he felt it very important to understand what makes a creative person tick. And he said that he had failed. In other words, I don't think that the artist is a scientist; he's almost the antithesis of the scientist. He cannot explain, he can only state. He makes a poetic statement, and the psychiatrist figures out why that is a universal truth. The psychiatrist tells people why they behave the way they do; the artist tells how they behave.

William Eastlake, interview, 197

Okay, so, sometimes in life, I can be a score-keeper - someone who keeps track of what he gives and what he gets in return. An annoying quality, to say the least, and I'm sure my wife has your sympathy, but it's made me highly attuned to when and where credit is due.

Mark Feuerstein

Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him he was funny.

Joe Grant

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

William Feather

First think of the person who lives in disguise,Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend,The middle of middle and the end of end?And finally give me the sound often heardDuring the search for a hard-to-find word.Now string them together, and answer me this,Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?

J.K. Rowling

Honest conviction is my courage the Constitution is my guide.

Andrew Johnson

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

William Gurnall

The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own.

Leo Stein

Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours - all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life - it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat.

James Van Der Beek

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

Saul Bellow

The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Robert Frost