Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.

Nathan Lane

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Helen Rowland

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

John Ruskin

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

Charles V

I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.

Bruce Dickinson

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

Caroline Kennedy

But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.

Ron White

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Jeane Platiere

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

Cole Porter

A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in photons and electrons. Can you imagine anything so silly?' They'll have a good laugh, because by then there will be newer better fantasies... And meanwhile, you feel the way the boat moves? That's the sea. That's real. You smell the salt in the air? You feel the sunlight on your skin? That's all real. Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

Michael Crichton