The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.

Barry Bonds

Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.

Don Hirschberg

I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.

Judy Blume

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

Denis Waitley

I worked so hard for so long - I did a lot of movies. I also worked a lot when my kids were smaller, before they were in school.

Michelle Pfeiffer

I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.

Kevin Costner

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

Doris Lessing

'Tis mad idolatry to make the service greater than the god.

William Shakespeare

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.

Henry Louis Gates

Make sense who may. I switch off.

Samuel Beckett

The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it ain't the gout.

Josh Billings