Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

Bill Cosby

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

Johnny Winter

I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.

Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Lascelles Abercrombie

But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

David Crosby

I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.

Bruce Springsteen

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

Confucius (551-479 B.C.)

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest

Bob Dylan

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Jonathan Winters

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Phyllis Diller

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

Jerry Lewis

When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.

Leonard Cohen

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Mae West (1893-1980)

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952)

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

Franz Kafka (1883-1924)

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966)

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

Jimmy Hoffa (1913-1975)

I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

Ravi Shankar

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

Thich Nhat Hanh

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Andy Rooney (1919-2011)

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Chuck Barris

The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.