What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves?

In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.

Yiddish Proverb

One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.

Jean Rostand

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

Etta James

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

Isabelle Adjani

True friends stab you in the front.

Oscar Wilde

I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.

Walter Matthau

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Mark Twain

For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.

John Wooden

There can be no assumption that today's majority is right and the Amish and others like them are wrong. A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

Warren Earl Burger

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.

Tammy Wynette

To fill the hour -- that is happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.

Jessica Savitch