I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.

Richard M. Daley

To reget deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

Mark Ruffalo

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

Ronald Reagan

I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.

Stephen Daldry

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

J. C. Watts

Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.

John Updike

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

William James

Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!

Fannie Flagg

If you have parents with a healthy relationship, you don't learn that you don't have to be married. I thought being a healthy adult meant you had to have a spouse. I didn't know any different.

Alyssa Milano

I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.

Studs Terkel