"People don't resent you for being brave. They resent themselves for being afraid."

“We have the most expensive compliance system in the world. The IRS brags that they spend 35 cents for every $100 they collect. They're very efficient collectors. And the reason is they stick the real cost on you and me.”

“Be better today than you were yesterday, and be better tomorrow than you are today.”

“The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.”

Source : Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.125, New Directions Publishing

“I put my energy into writing songs. I have to carve out a living somehow doing this, and licensing is one way. It's hard to register what's "too much" for other people. I don't watch TV, so it's tough for me to gauge. I just take it as it comes, and don't put a whole lot of thought into it.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.”

“As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little.”

“Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.”

Source : "The Vignelli Subway Map Goes Digital" by Paul Goldberger, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2011.