When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.

Soren Kierkegaard

Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so it's a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback.

Mindy Kaling

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

Tom Holt

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Francis Bacon

The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.

Eric Alterman

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Les Brown

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

Alan Rickman

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

Louisa May Alcott

It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.

Bill Budge

I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

Georges Bernanos

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Logan Pearsall Smith

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

Benjamin Franklin