It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

John Selden

Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

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When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems.

Jon Fishman

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically -- while simulating a triumphant march forward -- than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?

Alexander Herzen

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundredth with a beauty.

Pearl Buck, The Good Earth, Chap

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Johann von Goethe

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

Margaret Fuller

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.

Simon Newcomb

You die as you've lived. If you were paranoid in life, you'll probably be paranoid when you're dying.

Dr. James Cimino

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.

Milan Kundera

A very small percentage of the people in this world will actually experience and live today. So many people will be stuck on another day, another time that traumatized them and caused them to spiritually stutter so they miss out on this day.

Steve Maraboli