No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
—Charles Dickens
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
—Walter Winchell
Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.
—Bret Harte
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
—Robert J. Sawyer in Calculating God
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
—Diogenes
Good order is the foundation of all things.
—Edmund Burke
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
—George Herbert
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
—Jane Wagner
Life is a long lesson in humility.
—J. M. Barrie
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
—P.G. Wodehouse
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
—Charles Kettering
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
—Muriel Spark
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
—Dick Cavett
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
—J. Paul Getty
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
—Will Cuppy