Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.

We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.

Mildred Newman

You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been.

Source Unknown

Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.

Jack White

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

Oscar Wilde

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

Marilyn Monroe

You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.

Geoffrey Rush

To die, to sleep To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there's the rub,For in that sleep of death what dreams may comeWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause there's the respectThat makes calamity of so long life.

William Shakespeare

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

Ben Stiller

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Lao Tzu

You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline -- it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.

Frank Zappa

Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.

Franz Grillparzer

God has given us these opportunities for tranquility.

Sir William Temple, family motto