My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

Begin with another's to end with your own.

Baltasar Gracian

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

Katharine Hepburn

All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.

Spalding Gray

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion

Robert A. Heinlein

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Ernest Hemingway

When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.

Nicole Richie

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

William Blake

Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.

Abraham Lincoln

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.

Haruki Murakami

The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

Juvenal