My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

Fanny Brice

All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.

William Butler Yeats

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Bruce Lee

It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.

Michael Crapo

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

Thomas Sowell

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

John Irving

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Thomas Fuller

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking - and looking.

Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Frank Lloyd Wright

It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Francis Bacon

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

Johannes Tauler

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

Herbert Marcuse