"There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself." — Gilda Radner, American comedian, born June 28, 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 June 28, 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 June 28, 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 June 28, 1946
"It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If it isn't one thing--it's another! It's always something." — Gilda Radner, American comedian, born June 28, 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 June 28, 1946
"I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch." — Gilda Radner, American comedian, born June 28, 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 June 28, 1946
"The road whinnies and rears up. The sky gallops. You are permanent within me in this chaos." — Miklos Radnoti, Hungarian poet, born 1909
"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 November 8, 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
"The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself." — Ramakrishna, Mystic of 19th-century India, born 1836
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." — Ayn Rand, Russian-American author, born 1905