Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.

Jon Meacham

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

Pierre Salinger

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

Jodi Picoult

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

Tim Robbins

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

Bill Griffith

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

Bill Bradley

I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman as well.

Lindsay Lohan

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?

Peace Pilgrim

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

George Eliot

Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.

Richard Pryor

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

Charlotte Bronte

For any happiness, even in this world, quite a lot of restraint is going to be necessary...

C.S. Lewis