Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war --for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Bruce Barton

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Benjamin Jowett

I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

Mariah Carey

On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.

Eddie Van Halen

People are so selfish. Those you help are the ones who turn against you.

Munshi Premchand

I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently.

Larry David

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

Hector Berlioz

In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.

Edgar Allan Poe

Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.

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Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

E. M. Forster

Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

Gretchen Rubin