We always had 'Vogue' in our house. But, when I was around 12, my Mom finally took me seriously about modeling and put a stack of magazines in front of me, then told me to study all the poses. The ones I loved the most were in 'Vogue.'

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Henry George

What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.

Thomas Frank

I hope to inspire people, influence people.

Ashley Tisdale

I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.

Elizabeth Berkley

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Vince Lombardi

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

Plautus

My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

Emeril Lagasse

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

Peter Ustinov

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

M. C. (Maurits Cornelis) Escher

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Jonathan Swift

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

Thomas C. Haliburton