There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.

When I was six years old my friend was auditioning for 'Annie,' and I decided I wanted to audition with her. My mom was worried I would fall flat on my face because I'd never opened my mouth to sing, so she sent me to vocal lessons. I did the audition and fell in love with the entire process of a show.

Jacqueline Emerson

Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

Don Knotts

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Ralph J. Cudworth

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

Bertrand Russell

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

Virginia Satir

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Julie Andrews

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.

Amy Sedaris

I would live to study, and not study to live.

Francis Bacon

I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.

Ethan Hawke

Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you.

Marlene Dietrich

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Dennis Potter

Phoebus de Chateaupers likewise came to a 'tragic end': he married.

Victor Hugo