I came from a family where I felt great pressure to be financially successful, and I felt that staying in Chicago and doing theater, I was, in all likelihood, not going to find financial success.

I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.

Gary Bauer

The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.

Brian Moore

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.

Brian Lamb

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves most things, in fact, are better in the morning.

Lewis Thomas

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Bertrand Russell

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

Oscar Wilde

Ah, Chloris! could I now but sit As unconcern'd as when Your infant beauty could beget No happiness or pain! When I the dawn used to admire, And praised the coming day, I little thought the rising fire Would take my rest away.

Charles Sedley

Better to burn out than rust out.

Neil Young

I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.

Liam Neeson

I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids.

Kelly Preston

If you remain static and wait for success to come to you it will certainly not happen.

Steve Backley

Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.

Maria Sharapova