"Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them." — Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor, born 1915
"Music was not so very different from mathematics. It was all just patterns and sequences. The only difference was that they hung in the air instead of on a piece of paper. Dancing was a grand equation. One side was sound, the other movement. The dancer's job was to make them equal." — Julia Quinn, American author, born 1970
"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