My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.

My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.

Tom Lehrer

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

Hosea Ballou

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

Ovid

We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it.

Walt W. Rostow

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

Woodrow Wilson

It doesn't matter who my father was it matters who I remember he was.

Anne Sexton

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.

Charles Caleb Colton

Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.

Stephen King

A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him.

Elmer G. Letterman

Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so it's a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback.

Mindy Kaling

He who stops being better stops being good.

Oliver Cromwell