Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she is, now, for as long as this dwindling may take.

Madeleine L'Engle

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

Helen Garner

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Jimmy Buffett

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

Adam Brody

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

Ken Venturi

I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.

Kelly Clarkson

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up by itself.

Woodrow Wilson

I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from.

Diane Keaton

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

Mark Twain

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

Leo Tolstoy

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

George Bernard Shaw