I don't know if there is a gene for comedy, but my dad was a very funny man. He just didn't know it. He was a naturally funny character, and when my brother and I would laugh at things he said and did, he would say, 'What do you think is so funny?'

A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.

Stephen Richards

Think of something useless, and that's probably what I'll be doing. Listen, Virginia, we need to love the useless. We need to raise pigeons without a thought of eating them, plant rose bushes without expecting to pick roses, write without aiming at publication. We need to do things without expecting benefits in return. The shortest distance between two points may be a straight line, but it's in the curving paths that the best things are found. . . . We must love the useless, because there is beauty in uselessness.

Lygia Fagundes Telles

They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea;He wields a mighty scepterO

William Ross Wallace

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

Albert Einstein

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Joan Baez

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Nora Ephron

He understands not only with his brain but with his heart. And that might be called love. Not quite sure, but maybe that's the key.

Anne Bancroft

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

Kenneth Koch

If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself.

Stuart Appleby

As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.

Jeff Bridges

Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.

Garry Trudeau

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

Donald Trump