I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

H. L. Mencken

Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.

Amy Grant

I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard.

Susan Hampshire

There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance

Victor Hugo

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Anita Brookner

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Edward A. Navajo

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

Heywood Broun

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

P. G. Wodehouse

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Albert Schweitzer

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

Benjamin Disraeli

Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.

Adam Lambert