Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.

Joni Mitchell

War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.

Orson Scott Card

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?

Dick Gregory

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Antoine De SaintExupery

I think every woman's entitled to a middle husband she can forget.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Walter Lippmann

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

Muhammad Ali

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Judith Viorst

But you know, we have a very normal family. We've had our ups and downs. You know, we've had our issues, but we've had great cause for celebration.

Julius Erving

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

Jean Baudrillard

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

Agnes De Mille

A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

John D. MacDonald