Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you again what you are to presume. I am the judge. I am telling you that. Presume he is innocent. When you sit there, I want you to look and say to yourself, There sits an innocent man.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Henry David Thoreau

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Umberto Eco

Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.

Bill Parcells

Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.

Ellen Glasgow

Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not.

Marty Robbins

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Groucho Marx

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Benjamin Disraeli

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

Gene Simmons

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.

Christian Bale

Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.

Olga Korbut

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

Billy Wilder

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Ralph Waldo Emerson