Unselfishly, you left your fathers and your mothers,You left behind your sisters and your brothers.Leaving your beloved children and wives,You put on hold, your dreams

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

Jean de la Bruyere

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal.

Douglas Coupland

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

William Hazlitt

Getting to meet people that I've admired my entire life, and getting to meet them in such a way where they're coming in to play completely different characters than I had ever seen them do is just wonderful.

Will Friedle

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

Gene Tierney

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.

Ernest Hemingway

Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hope to work harder than ever to help people around the world.

Lech Walesa

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Mother Teresa

Bloody men are like bloody buses -- you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.

Wendy Cope

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

Norman Douglas