"Things are always darkest just before they go pitch black."

"Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month, other just go over them."

"What an artist perishes with me!"

"We judge the future by the past. Achieving success is one's ability to look at yesterday, cease today and capture tomorrowa€?s opportunity."

"The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel."

"Everybody's got plans...until they get hit."

"Prayer doesn't change things. It changes people and they change things."

"Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world."

"Years ago my mother said to me, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant."

"All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough."

"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

"Comedy is acting out optimism."