Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.

We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he's given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God.

Duane Chapman

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

Henry James

By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?

Jackie Mason

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Dolly Parton

There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.

H. L. Mencken

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

Kahlil Gibran

Life didn't come with a fool-proof manual.

Richard Carlson, Ph. D

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Zora Neale Hurston

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Andrew Marvell

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Voltaire

I didn't wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We're all that forever, and I've just grown older. I mean, I haven't lost anything. I've gained a few things.

Paul Westerberg

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

Ralph Waldo Emerson