It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

Jack Lemmon

I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.

Mitch Hedberg

When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.

Andrew Sullivan

It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.

Samuel Johnson

My books are likely to contain food stains and rings from my tea cups. A book is to be lived with and used.

Kristin Cashore

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

Daniel Webster

Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.

Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel

You see, with me, when I'm nervous, I smile and laugh.

Paula Radcliffe

From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history.

George Nethercutt

Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned; The calmer, I, to see it true That ways of love are never new- The love that sets you daft and dazed Is every love that ever blazed; The happier, I, to fathom this: A kiss is every other kiss.

Dorothy Parker, from Incurable

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

Carl Sagan