When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them. That month, I drove my stepdad's Thunderbird Super Coupe into Manhattan every day, and I would crank Cypress Hill as I flew around the city, racing the taxis.

Friendship...is not something you learn in school,but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.

Oscar Wilde

I love my kids, and the moments I have with them, and it's kind of weird, it's such an age old cliche, but the way that my sons, the way they make me feel when I look at them, the way they say things, no one else would probably react to them, but it's a special thing for me.

Michael Rapaport

I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

Kathleen Turner

The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.

Peter Conrad

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

Rudolph Valentino

Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.

Tom Allen

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

Nathaniel Branden

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

Anthony Burgess

Great souls endure in silence.

Friedrich von Schiller

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

Jonathan Swift

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

William Butler Yeats