No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.

Michel de Montaigne

So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.

Petra Nemcova

I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.

Lynn Redgrave

Have courage and standing your ground. No one ever solved nothin' runnin'.

James Dye

Why should poetry have to make sense?

Charlie Chaplin

It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.

Nastassja Kinski

This nation is like all the others that have been spewed upon the earth--ready to shout for any cause that will tickle its vanity or fill its pocket. What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!- Letter to J. H. Twichell, 1/29/1901

Mark Twain

Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others. . . .If, however, we do not use our anger to define ourselves clearly in every important relationship we are in--and manage our feelings as they arise--no one else will assume this responsibility for us.

Harriet Goldhor Lerner, The Danc

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

Haruki Murakami

I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.

Leila Josefowicz

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Dame Edith Sitwell

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes