Their rebukes have never made me angry, because I have always wondered why they did not rebuke me more. They should have. Their friendly praise has been one of the sweetest, most warming things in my life in the theater. I do go on the stage unafraid of them and with love in my heart for them.

Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce

Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.

Janeane Garofalo

I am the Fred Astaire of karate.

JeanClaude Van Damme

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Lydia M. Child

Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the Field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere -- so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive -- that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom,

Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.

Ang Lee

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

Sarah McLachlan

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

M. H. Abrams

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Erma Bombeck

Yet each man kills the thing he loves,By each let this be heard,Some do it with a bitter look,Some with a flattering word,The coward does it with a kiss,The brave man with a sword!

Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Readi

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.

Thomas Sowell

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

P. D. James