A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.

Leonardo DiCaprio

the whole point of the wish business was to see to it that what the client got was exactly what he asked for and exactly what he didn't really want.

Terry Pratchett

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

Alice Walker

But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical he has no freedom.

Buddy Rich

It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.

Daniel Berrigan

Then the case is the same in all the other arts for the orator and his rhetoric; there is no need to know the truth of the actual matters, but one merely needs to have discovered some device of persuasion which will make one appear to those who do not know to know better than those who know.

Plato

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.

Terry Pratchett

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

Placido Domingo

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Samuel Johnson

I have seldom known a person, who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.

Babe Paley

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

Hippocrates