I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - including all the assassins - entertain grave misgivings

Ambrose Bierce

Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.

Mohamed ElBaradei

It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.

H. P. Blavatsky

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Pierre Corneille

He who marries for money earns it.

Yiddish Proverb

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

Peter Ustinov

Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.

Ezra Taft Benson

You can't change the music of your soul.

Katharine Hepburn

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

Dave Van Ronk

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Oscar Wilde

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Johann von Goethe

Once when I was lost . . . I saw a policeman and asked him to help me find my parents. I said to him, Do you think we'll ever find them? He said, I don't know kid . . . there are so many places they can hide.

Rodney Dangerfield