The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really funny for a cartoonist, obviously.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

Joseph Joubert

Success is not the absence of failure. Success is persistence through failure.

Aisha Tyler

I swear I want to be a food model.

Amy Sedaris

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

Carl Gustav Jung

In Heaven, I believe my dad is somewhere doing something nice. I feel I've been too lucky to travel this far without somebody guiding me.

Katherine Jenkins

There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.

Chris Patten

The key to why things change is the key to everything.

James Burke

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

Otto Weininger

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Angeline M. Bishop

Business people - Your business - is your greatest prejudice: it ties you to your locality, to the company you keep, to the inclinations you feel. Diligent in business - but indolent in spirit, content with your inadequacy, and with the cloak of duty hung over this contentment: that is how you live, that is how you want your children to live!

Friedrich Nietzsche

This is what you should know about losing someone you love. They do not travel alone. You go with them.

Augusten Burroughs