Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

Arnold H. Glasow

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.note: May 22, 2006, Terkel, along with other plaintiffs, filed a suit in federal district court against AT&T to stop them from giving customer phone records to the National Security Agency without a court order.

Studs Terkel

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

H. L. Mencken

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

Marshall McLuhan

An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction.

Johannes Stark

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destin us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

William P. Young

It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a days journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.

Herodotus

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Oscar Wilde

I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.

Florence Welch

I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.

Tracey Ullman