But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.

Arthur Schopenhauer

And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.

Oscar Wilde

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

His breath is so bad why every time he smokes he blow onion rings.

Rodney Dangerfield

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Samuel Johnson

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

Jonathan Davis

I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.

Rachel Roy

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Blaise Pascal

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

Mel Gibson

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

Margaret Atwood

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Edsger Dijkstra

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

John Jay Chapman