Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

Missy Elliot

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.

Christopher Hitchens

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The business of the law is to increase the business of the law

Charles Dickens

I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.

H. G. Bissinger

I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.

Hayden Christensen

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

Calvin Trillin

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

William James

According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.

Jeff Miller

If a man has good manners and is not afraid of other people he will get by, even if he is stupid.

David Eccles

Diabetes is a disease that's had a deep impact on my family. My little brother has had type 1 diabetes since he was a baby and I have spent time learning about the disease and trying to bring attention to it so that one day soon we will reach a cure.

Izabel Goulart

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

Deepak Chopra