In the end, everything is a gag.

It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.

Kate Beckinsale

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

Igor Stravinsky

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

Samuel Richardson

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

Benjamin Spock

Man was predestined to have free will.

Hal Luyah

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

David Attenborough

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

Mos Def

Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.

Walter Gilbert

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

James Thurber

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

Jane Austen

If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.

Chris Christie

There's only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.

Lisa Kleypas