"Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life."

“I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didnt have to be a gigolo. In real life.”

“In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.”

Source : Leon Trotsky (1937). “The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and where is it Going?”, p.241, Mehring Books

“I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.”

“The Lord will never forsake or abandon anyone, You may abandon him, but he will not abandon you. You never need to feel that you are alone.”

“I'm competitive and I have a messy purse, but otherwise, I like people to think I'm a winner.”

Source : "Jenny Slate, Gabe Liedman and Richard Kind on stand-up, improv and Jerry Seinfeld". Interview with Prachi Gupta, www.salon.com. January 19, 2014.

“Oh, Herbert," she said pleadingly to her silent husband, "you must make him marry her! Call for the parson immediately! Look at them... they are...," she sputtered, "canoodling!”

“I find fashion magazines so incredibly boring . . . There still is no new photography and no new concerns.”

“When we love there are no barriers, no desires, no needs, no wants.”