While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.

Jeff Ross

Never speak of a rope in the family of one who has been hanged.

Proverb

It's such an amazing thing to be loved for who you are.

Debra Winger

People who come up with It may not work or What are we going to do if it fails? do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire.

Kim WooChoong

If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.

Alfred A. Montapert

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

Albert Einstein

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

John Betjeman

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

Samuel Beckett

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

Jessica Hagedorn

The beaten path is the safest, but the traffics terrible.

Jeff Taylor

There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.

Friedrich Nietzsche