In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

John Huston Finley

As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.

Daniel Craig

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

Edgar Degas

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Idina Menzel

So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.

Lincoln Steffens

We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, and of how life came to be. And when we think in terms of millions of years, we are not so impatient that our own problems be solved tomorrow.

Rachel Carson

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Emily Dickinson

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

Rodney Dangerfield

Get mad, then get over it.

Colin Powell

To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

Vachel Lindsay