I happened to look up and there it was. All over and done with, at last. I sat on for a few moments with the ball in my hand and the dog yelping and pawing at me. (Pause.) Moments. Her moments, my moments (Pause.) The dog's moments.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

James Russell Lowell

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Albert Einstein

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.

Flip Wilson

You can't be funny if you don't have good material.

Matt LeBlanc

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Ben Stein

As a girl, you're supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean, who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin?

Ellen Page

Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.

Albert Camus

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

Fred Rogers

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Jean Cocteau

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

Simon Armitage

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

Jonathan Swift