Billy Connolly

 My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger. 

- Billy Connolly

John Lennon

 Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. 

- John Lennon

Helen Rowland

 Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself. 

- Helen Rowland

Sholom Aleichem

 Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. 

- Sholom Aleichem

George Washington Carver

 How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. 

-  George Washington Carver

Donald Trump

 Everything in life is luck. 

- Donald Trump

John Henry Newman

 To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. 

- John Henry Newman

Marie Curie

 Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. 

- Marie Curie

Heraclitus

 Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character. 

- Heraclitus

Nipsey Hussle

 Material things ain't nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it's who you is. You wasn't born with it; you gon' die without it. 

- Nipsey Hussle

Martha Stewart

 I had no idea when I went to college what I'd be doing. I took organic chemistry and did terribly, but I was good in English and art. I took many courses and participated in as many activities as I could. I learned a lot about every single thing. 

- Martha Stewart

Edgar Degas

 Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. 

- Edgar Degas

Helen Hayes

 I cry out for order and find it only in art. 

- Helen Hayes

Angelina Jolie

 To be in any way a positive contribution, that's all anybody wants to be. It's all I've ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you've been of use, in whatever way that comes out. 

- Angelina Jolie

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

 Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people. 

- Cuba Gooding, Jr.