My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.

Celine Dion

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

Dwight D Eisenhower

I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.

Natalia Makarova

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

Carroll O'Connor

Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.

Bernie Sanders

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself as a liar

Mark Twain

For under scrutiny you will find that even an open book can have a surprise scribbled in its margins.

Violet Haberdasher

You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.

Nathan Fillion

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

Dag Hammarskjold

I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.

Andre Rieu