Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

For the first time in my life a feeling of overpowering stinging melancholy seized me. Before, I had never experienced aught but a not unpleasing sadness. The bond of a common humanity now drew me irresistibly to gloom. A fraternal melancholy! For both I and Bartleby were sons of Adam. I remembered the bright silks and sparkling faces I had seen that day, in gala trim, swanlike sailing down the Mississippi of Broadway; and I contrasted them with the pallid copyist, and thought to myself, Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay; but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none.

Herman Melville, Bartleby the Sc

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

Joseph Heller

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

I learn from experience.

Alan Dershowitz

A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.

Peter Ustinov

Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes. On filming MacHale's Navy

Bruce Campbell

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not

William Shakespeare

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

Alexander Pope

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

Jack Benny

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Thomas Fuller

Doing things for others always pays dividends...

Claude M. Bristol