Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

John Buchanan Robinson

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

Margaret Cho

I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.

Allyson Schwartz

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

David Seabury

I work six months and get three or four with the family. I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

Kyle Chandler

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

Barbra Streisand

So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.

Sheryl Sandberg

If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.

Charles Dudley Warner

Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

George McGovern

The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Umberto Eco

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

Francis Bacon

To be here today is just beyond my wildest dreams.

Rick Yune