"One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come."

“I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry”

Source : Norman Wisdom, William Hall (1992). “Don't laugh at me: an autobiography”, Vintage

“I love to laugh and well, who doesn't?”

“I have given the United States half the territory they possess, and for them to suffer me to remain in poverty, in consequence of it, will not redound much to their honor hereafter.”

Source : "Conquest of the Country Northwest of the River Ohio, 1778 - 1783, and Life of Gen. George Rogers Clark" by William Hayden English, vol. 2, (p. 789), 1896.

“Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don't really go to parties anymore either. I'll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after a show.”

Source : Source: the-talks.com

“Smokey Wilson was like my Gandhi. If I had run into somebody else in prison, with a different set of values, the world might have never known one of the greatest boxing talents ever to come out of Philadelphia.”

“There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable, a creature whose brain and muscles frequently originate movements which suggest flight; and then there are pilots who regardless of their airborne time remain earth-loving bipeds forever. When these latter unfortunates, because of one urge or another, actually make an ascension, they neither anticipate nor relish the event and they drive their machines with the same graceless labor they inflict upon the family vehicle.”

“Sometimes you work with somebody you've never heard of because you just feel like working.”

“The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.”