I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.

A Master Jedi feels emotions, but they do not allow them to influence their reasoning. Yoda told Luke that he would know the good from the bad when he was 'calm, at peace.

Stephen Richards

There is a good side to every situation.

Dr. David Schwartz

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Robertson Davies

Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.

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My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'

Kitty Kelley

Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.

E. M. Forster

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

H. L. Mencken

The contrasts and contradictions that can permanently live peacefully side by side in a skull make all the systems of political optimists and pessimists illusory.

Albert Einstein

My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.

Kat Dennings

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

Christian Nevell Bovee

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain