Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.

Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.

Sigourney Weaver

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

Frederick Douglass

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Andrew Matthews

I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making The Appaloosa a good movie.

Dylan McDermott

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Mark Caine

Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society.

Simon Mainwaring

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Edward Abbey

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

Tacitus

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

Alexander McCall Smith

We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.

W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon an

Here's a viewer's guide to BP media briefings. Whenever you hear someone with a British accent talking about this on behalf of British Petroleum they are not telling you the truth. That's the bottom-line.

Anthony Weiner

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

Rudyard Kipling