One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.

Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart

In my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need.

To die, so young to die. No, no, not I, I love the warm sunny skies, light, song, shining eyes, I want no war, no battle cry, No, no, not I.

Seven is more than a lucky number or a famous baseball player's uniform. It's the brain's natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks.

And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion.

Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.

A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.

You don't dwell on what you've lost, you just move on.

We are entertainers. We're trying to entertain people.

The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.

I have lived according to rules that I embrace, but I don't feel like my job is to force others to embrace the rules that I embrace for myself.