My father was stupid. He worked in a bank and they caught him stealing pens.

My watch is three hours fast, and I can't fix it. So I'm goingto move to New York.

Steven Wright

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

David Bowie

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

Michael Sheen

We rise in glory, as we sink in pride:Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Edward Young, Night Thoughts, ni

If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.

Jack Kevorkian

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. If he loves, it is not to give himself, to blend in fecund union with another being, but to meditate on his love. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves.

Emile Durkheim

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Socrates

At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.

Eric Idle, (attributed)

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

Walter Lord

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, attributed,

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

John F. Dodge

To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.

Arthur Henderson