My grandmother always taught me, 'If you don't have a home, family, and church, you don't have anything.'

I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile.

Ray Conniff

They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor

William Shakespeare

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

Roger Ebert

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

Henry Miller

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times hard to handle, but if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

Marilyn Monroe

Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.

Don Marquis

I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them.

Emmanuelle Beart

If you cannot mould yourself as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

Thomas Kempis, The Imitation of

I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.

Chris Matthews

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

Samuel Johnson

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

Mayim Bialik

It is often better for a person to recognize a sin than to do a good deed. Recognizing a sin makes a person humble. Doing a good deed often can feed a person's pride.

Leo Tolstoy