Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want.

And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow.

Jim Henson

My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye.

Wilbur Smith

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.

Bob Ross

All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

Ernest Hemingway

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Richard P. Feynman

I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

Nadia Giosia

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

Edward de Bono

The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.

Nicholson Baker

History is more or less bunk.

Henry Ford

My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.

Joan Rivers

A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Marilyn Monroe