"Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time." — Ginger Rogers, American dancer, born 1911
"If you want people to know what your message is, just sing it." — Kenny Rogers, American singer, born 1938
"People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice." — Kenny Rogers, American singer, born 1938
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." — Will Rogers, American cowboy, born 1879
"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock." — Will Rogers, American cowboy, born 1879
"Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world." — Richard Rohr, American Franciscan friar, born 1943
"Don't waste any time dividing the world into the good guys and the bad guys. Hold them both together in your own soul—where they are anyway—and you will have held together the whole world." — Richard Rohr, American Franciscan friar, born 1943
"All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us." — Richard Rohr, American Franciscan friar, born 1943
"Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God." — Richard Rohr, American Franciscan friar, born 1943
"The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us in return." — Richard Rohr, American Franciscan friar, born 1943
"You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes." — Richard Rohr, American Franciscan friar, born 1943
"I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?" — Nancy Roman, American astronomer, born 1925