The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

Annie Lennox

All I can say is that I'm getting married in the future. I've narrowed it down to that.

Tiger Woods

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

Murray N. Rothbard, Capitalism v

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

Lee Pace

Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.

Plato

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Tryon Edwards

She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the parts of life she didn't like, embroider the parts she did and thus control the life she had.

Dudley Clendinen

Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.

Rachel Naomi Remen

Bravery and Stupidity are the same thing, the outcome determines your label.

Hayden Sixx

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

Mary Antin

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

George Bancroft

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Thomas Jefferson, "Letter to Col