You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.

Lyn Nofziger

It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be available to all women, regardless of what health plan they have or where they work - as Congress intended. Providing access to birth control just makes good sense.

Gwen Moore

I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure.

Cynthia Nixon

The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

William Hazlitt

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

Pierre Corneille

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

Arne Jacobsen

It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken.

Aristotle

The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.

Russell Lynes

All music is beautiful.

Billy Strayhorn

I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing.

Harry Melling

What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt held in cohesion by unresting cells. Which work they know not why, which never halt, myself unwitting where their Master dwells?

John Edward Masefield

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Joseph Stalin