The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

He who stops being better stops being good.

Oliver Cromwell

Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.

Sir Henry Wotton

It is better to live rich, than to die rich.

Samuel Johnson

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Harry F. Banks

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

Kenneth Hildebrand

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

Calvin Klein

The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

Oscar Wilde

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Neil Armstrong, On the first moo

I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there.You have to trust the director and react to nothing.

Katie Holmes

Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.

Dee Dee Myers

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

George Jessel