August 29 Birthdays

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. Francis of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least amount of hissing.

Why am I running for president? Well, my wife, Cindy, says it is because I sustained several severe blows to the head in prison camp.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge, it is thinking that makes what we read ours. John Locke

Youve got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

I had a couple friends from all the different cliques in school, but my true friends were my gymnastics teammates. I grew up competing with them for ten years.

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.

Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect.

Were all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones, Ill never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. Its like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. Were trying to use a thing we dont understand to understand ourselves.

At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know Im safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.'

If I wasn't a musician, I would be a serial killer.