I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

Margot Asquith

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

Samuel Butler

I hadn't been practicing or playing or anything. But that had been a vital part of my life.

Joseph Jarman

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.

Thornton Wilder

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

Yo-Yo Ma

Nothing will bind the eyes of man quicker than the touch of compromise. A principle not compromised is a principle worth dying for. A dream not compromised is a dream worth living for.

Ogwo David Emenike

Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain?

Frederick William Faber

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

Joyce Meyer

I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.

Mary Gordon

Humor comes from self-confidence.

Rita Mae Brown

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Tallulah Bankhead

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

Herbert Read