It is now my opinion that in all Indian curricula of higher education there should be a place for Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and English, besides of course the vernacular.

The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.

Sharon Salzberg

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

Tony Visconti

I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!

Katie Couric

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Source Unknown

Being in the studio is a really romantic time.

Alison Krauss

“If we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.”

C.S. Lewis

I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am.

Steve Yzerman

I've learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are.

Shonda Rhimes

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

E. Y. Harburg

I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.

Studs Terkel

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

Harry Seidler

My goal is, of course, for this show to do well, and I would love it if people liked it.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus