I have seen the very bottom of life: I was so afraid I wouldn't be funny anymore. I just knew that I would lose my zaniness and my sense of humor. But I didn't. Recovery turned out to be a wonderful thing.

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirk Kirkpatrick

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Graham Greene

Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.

Chinese Proverb

Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!

Marquis de Sade

Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

Zig Ziglar

It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the results of the researches that were going on in semantics and pragmatics. I believe that this effort has proven to be a failure. Though Chomsky did indeed revolutionize the subject of linguistics, it is not at all clear, at the end the century, what the solid results of this revolution are. As far as I can tell there is not a single rule of syntax that all, or even most, competent linguists are prepared to agree is a rule.

John Searle

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

Jane Fonda

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.

Marc Bloch

Well, I don't know if this is true of everyone, but I have this relationship with my parents where, despite however mature or articulate or grown-up I think I've become, as soon as I go home, I turn into this petulant 13-year-old, especially with the tone of my voice.

Jenna Fischer

Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.

Albert Camus

There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.

Jason Schwartzman