Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Edwin P. Whipple

We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.

Neville Chamberlain

I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live.

John Avlon

Our lives teach us who we are.

Salman Rushdie

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

Rick Fox

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.

Samuel Johnson

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Anthony Sampson

There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.

Henry Ward Beecher

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

Joseph Conrad

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Audre Lorde

Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors' annual medical expenses.

Jim Gerlach

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

Samuel Johnson