"There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them."

“I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.”

“If you have confidence in your own words, aspirations, thoughts, and actions and do your very best, you will have no need to regret the outcome of what you do. Fear and trembling are lot of the person who, while stinting effort, hopes that everything will come out precisely as he wants.”

“The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.”

Source : Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

“Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating ourselves when we run away from the ambiguity of loneliness.....Rather than persecuting yourself or feeling that something terribly wrong is happening, right there in the moment of sadness and longing, could you relax and touch the limitless space of the human heart?”

“Whenever I hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases.”

“You can't make the people do what you want them to do. You've got to get everybody to see what you seein' or you gonna be a damn fool.”

Source : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 19, 2003.

“I have a very hyper-sensitive sister, and when she saw in the papers the next day that I had proclaimed myself the daughter of an immigrant, she didn't like it at all, and was with difficulty deterred from writing to the press that my father might be an immigrant, but not hers.”

“Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.”

Source : "Harold Ramis: Expect the Unexpected". Psychology Today interview, www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.