What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty --the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

Mark Twain

My Vegas act is how I make my money.

Rita Rudner

I can't forgive my friends for dying I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

George Bernard Shaw

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

Paul Harris

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

Mark Rydell

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.

Source Unknown

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

Paul Tillich

What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe this with the force it is impossible to repel, if he permits his reason to act, and his rule of moral life will follow of course.

Thomas Paine

If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?

Virginia Woolf

If you have only 95 minutes of material, make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often that's forgotten.

Stephen Hunter

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

Ben Elton

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Wendell Phillips