All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.

Marilu Henner

Marriage is not a noun it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Barbara de Angelis

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

William Proxmire

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

George Washington Carver

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

C.S. Lewis

Theologian: But what is to love? Philosopher: To be delighted by the happiness of another.

Gottfried Leibniz

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

Dorothy Parker

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

Tenneva Jordan

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.

Erin Morgenstern

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis--once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Norman Cousins

I love being in a show. I love the community aspect of it. I like the discipline of it, too.

Joel Grey