Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Joyce Cary

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

Ilka Chase

It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.

Shannon Miller

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.

Harvey Fierstein

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

David Harold Fink

Mind your mind, soon, you will mine from it.

Ogwo David Emenike

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

Dan Millman

A family is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.

Samuel Johnson

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Antoine De SaintExupery

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

John Ciardi

Remote and ineffectual don.

Hilaire Belloc