It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

Franz Liszt

I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now.

Tia Carrere

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Mark Caine

I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.

Robert Plant

There are two powers in this world which cannot be matched. Beauty and Youth. Buy the beauty and imprison the youth. Give the best models, actress, and girls from town and nail them. I do not care how much it costs.

Ravindra Shukla

American planes full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France a few German fighter planes flew at them backwards sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. They did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground and those planes flew up backwards to join the formation. The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires gathered them into cylindrical steel containers and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks. The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own which were long steel tubes. They used them to suck more fragments from the crewmen and planes. But there were still a few wounded Americans though and some of the bombers were in bad repair. Over France though German fighters came up again made everything and everybody as good as new. When the bombers got back to their base the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America where factories were operating night and day dismantling the cylinders separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground to hide them cleverly so they would never hurt anybody ever again.

Kurt Vonnegut

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

Victor Hugo

You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.

Yiddish Proverb

LUBOV. I'm quite sure there wasn't anything at all funny. You oughtn't to go and see plays, you ought to go and look at yourself. What a grey life you lead, what a lot you talk unnecessarily.

Anton Chekhov

The funniest line in English is Get it? When you say that, everyone chortles.

Garrison Keillor

I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.

Kenneth Koch

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

G. M. Trevelyan