My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

Peter Shaffer

O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle -- be Thou near them! With them -- in spirit -- we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it -- for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.

Mark Twain

Music is the universal language: it is the same anywhere you go in the world.

Anonymous

It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.

Eric Bana

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

Heinz R. Pagels

Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.

Judith Stern

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

Calvin Trillin

We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

Desmond Morris

In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

Erich Fromm

I'm not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmountable and inspire others by showing them no matter where they are in their fitness goals, they can do it, too.

Ruben Studdard

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.

E. Joseph Cossman