Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.

Kevyn Aucoin

You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.

Brendan Coyle

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

Raymond Chandler

Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

Thomas Carlyle

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

Anthony Burgess

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Winston Churchill

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

M. Scott Peck

Hair is a beautiful form of self-expression.

Carolyn Aronson

No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based.

Polykarp Kusch

Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.

Don Miller

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.

Monica Lewinsky

Many find their heart when they have lost their head.

Friedrich Nietzsche