Failure is unimportant.  It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. -Charlie Chaplin

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.  -Agatha Christie

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy.  If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem.  But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world.  That makes it hard to plan the day. -E.B.White

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.  -Aldous Huxley

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. -Mahatma Gandhi

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. -Charlie Chaplin

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. -Abraham Lincoln

I do not know how to do things by half measures. -George Sands

Whatever happiness is in the world has arisen from a wish for the welfare of others; whatever misery there is has arisen from indulging selfishness.  -Buddhist Proverb

Cut her now and she would bleed music and the song would sing only of wonderful things to be. -Carrie Fisher

O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance? -William Butler Yeats

Her performance ran the gamut of emotions from A to B. -Dorothy Parker

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. -Leo Buscaglia

"Edna, my dear, you look almost like a man." -Noel Coward  "So do you." -Edna Ferber

Pardon my dust. -Dorothy Parker and her tombstone

A day without laughter is a day wasted. -Charlie Chaplin

Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today. -James Dean

There is a God...she has thick ankles. -Ann Onymous

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.  -Albert Pike

             I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.  -Charlotte Bronte

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. -Victor Borge

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.-Alexis Carrell

 Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege.  Use it.  Dwell in possibility.  -Oprah Winfrey

The love of one's country is a splendid thing.  But why stop at the border? -Pablo Cassals

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.  -Rainer Maria Rilke

   One must care about a world one will never see. -Bertrand Russell

First of all, that is a terrible metaphor. This ship is not sinking. This       administration  is soaring. If anything, they are rearranging the                          deck chairs on the Hindenburg. -Stephen Colbert

It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present. -Little Edie Beale