The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

I have done this--made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is.

Jennifer Donnelly

Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.

Dan Quayle

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

Henry Van Dyke

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

Pope John Paul II

It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.

William Faulkner, Nobel Prize Sp

I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.

Naveen Andrews

'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.

Joel Kinnaman

Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.

Paul Brunton

When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.

Billy Joel

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Mark Twain

Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us.

Gil Atkinson

It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

J. Richard Munro