You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.

Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he came to establish will always be a minority affair.

Edward Norman

Whoso loves Believes the impossible.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

James A. Michener

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

David Schwimmer

Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never;Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams!Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit for ever;Death hath not touched it at all, dead though the house of it seems!Who knoweth it exhaustless, self-sustained,Immortal, indestructible,shall suchSay, I have killed a man, or caused to kill?Nay, but as when one layethHis worn-out robes away,And, taking new ones, sayeth,These will I wear to-day!So putteth by the spiritLightly its garb of flesh,And passeth to inheritA residence afresh.

Bhagavad Gita

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

Jonathan Sacks

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

Paul Klee

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

Andrew Denton

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

Van Morrison

Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.

Henry W. Fowler