An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Leonardo DaVinci

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Jimmy Carter

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

Mae West, Quoted in: David Ray J

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

Gore Vidal

I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn't like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music.

Reggie Watts

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.

Carol Burnett

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

Edmund Burke

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Joseph Joubert

Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it.

Cassandra Clare

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

Criss Jami

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar