It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

If it's not working before you get married, marriage isn't going to fix it.

Courtney Thorne Smith

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

Mark Twain

My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be.

Ethel Merman

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

Henry Louis Gates

To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frightened.

Robert C. Murphy

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

Mason Cooley

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Benjamin Franklin

If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living.

Albert Camus

If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.

Richard Petty

There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

Michael Leboeuf

You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.

Marilu Henner