Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

I know that there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government, I stand in awe and I kneel in respect. And it is to this great judgment that I dedicate this next song.http://www.webheights.net/speakingcohen/denver.htm

Leonard Cohen, commenting on his

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

Mario Vargas Llosa

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

Jerry Stiller

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Voltaire

It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes.

George Carlin

I have hair that I audition with, my sitcom hair which is a curly wig. I have my long chic hair that I wear to my son's school so they know I'm not playing around. I always tell people that my husband gets a different woman every night when I come home from 'The View.' Hair makes you feel a certain way, like putting a power suit on.

Sherri Shepherd

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

Max Beerbohm

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.

Malcolm X

My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.

Erica Jong

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Robert Burton

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Publilius Syrus

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Thomas Jefferson