Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action... with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

Aristotle

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Eric Idle

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.

Maurice Gibb

WHATEVER YOU DO, TELL THE TRUTH.

Grover Cleveland

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

Voltaire

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

Barbara de Angelis

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

Rumi

I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I say, I think I might have written that.

Steven Wright

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

Lana Turner

Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.

Thomas Brackett Reed

Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.

Lois Duncan

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Edwin P. Whipple