I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.

I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.

Henry J. Kaiser

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Benjamin Disraeli

He speaketh not; and yet there liesA conversation in his eyes.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The

Being honest about your feelings doesn't always mean you're telling the truth.

Lacey Sturm

Being a mom is hard, I think a lot of working moms feel that way.

Gwen Stefani

Monkey can make a long jump with his muscles; and man, with his wisdom!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded or blended; and vary as much from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Wayne Dyer

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.

Paul Robeson

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Nelson Mandela

Men should be what they seem.

William Shakespeare

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

Ninon De L'Enclos