I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Death is an absolute marvel.

William Shatner

A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.

Charles Fort

By satisfying people's inner selfish desires, one made them happy and thus docile.

The Century of the Self

When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.

Deb Caletti

I hope in my lifetime we can all continue to laugh at ourselves and not put down anyone for what they weigh.

Richard Simmons

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

Arnold Palmer

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.

Don Henley

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Experience (has) long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can when we cannot do all we would wish

Thomas Jefferson

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

Melissa Gilbert

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

Francis Bacon