"I, my military ID number 30743, retired general in the Israel Defense Forces, consider myself to be a soldier in the army of peace today." — Yitzhak Rabin, 5th Prime Minister of Israel, born 1922
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music." — Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, born 1873
"Music is the Sister of Poetry and her Mother is sorrow!" — Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, born 1873
"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end." — Gilda Radner, American comedian, born 1946
"There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself." — Gilda Radner, American comedian, born 1946
"I would rather be funny than gorgeous, absolutely. Because it's too hard to be gorgeous, you know. I could make a stab at gorgeous as long as I had something funny to say to get out of it." — Gilda Radner, American comedian, born 1946
"I've learned what I can control is whether I am going to live a day in fear and depression and panic, or whether I am going to attack the day and make it as good a day, as wonderful a day, as I can." — Gilda Radner, American comedian, born 1946
"Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world, but I'm a comedian, and even cancer couldn't stop me from seeing the humor in what I went through." — Gilda Radner, American comedian, born 1946
"It's like my father always said to me, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If it isn't one thing–it's another! It's always something." — Gilda Radner, American comedian, born 1946
"While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness." — Gilda Radner, American comedian, born 1946
"Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next." — Gilda Radner, American comedian, born 1946
"Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there." — Bonnie Raitt, American blues singer, born 1949
"It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I’ve been moving towards it my whole life." — Aron Ralston, American mountaineer, born 1975