Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her

I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'

Jerry Saltz

I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.

Edward Furlong

When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.

Jessica Lange

A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.

Fawn M. Brodie

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Bill Cosby

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

Sir Winston Churchill

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Samuel Johnson

It is false zeal to keep truth while wounding charity

Blaise Pascal

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

Annie Dillard

...there's nothing more lovely than your lamplight, seen from a dark street...

John Geddes

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Harold S. Geneen

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

George Bernard Shaw