My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.

William Strong

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

George Eliot

If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with to the other world?

Benjamin Franklin

You can't invent yourself as you maunder on. Your fabrications aren't going to impress the blood test, the urinalysis or the chest X-ray. Science is not amused.

John Leonard

I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.

Eddie Izzard

Exercise is amazing, from the inside out. I feel so alive and have more energy.

Vanessa Hudgens

Republics abound in young civilians who believe that the laws make the city, that grave modifications of the policy and modes of living and employments of the population, that commerce, education and religion may be voted in or out; and that any measure, though it were absurd, may be imposed on a people if only you can get sufficient voices to make it a law. But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow and not lead the character and progress of the citizen; that the form of government which prevails is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it. The law is only a memorandum.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

Robert Wise

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

Oprah Winfrey

We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.

Timothy Geithner

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Winston Churchill