The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing.

Chris Pratt

If ceaseless vigilance is the price of liberty, more so is it true that ceaseless criticism of ever new opinions and ever new views, however distasteful, bizarre, and paradoxical, is the price of truth.

Boris Sidis

Help me, Allison says,but she is soft-spoken, and everyone she loves is so far away.

Daniel Handler

One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Les Brown

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

George Eliot

I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.

Ethan Embry

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed...

C.S. Lewis

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence.

T. Scott McLeod

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

Lascelles Abercrombie

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.

Sandra Day O'Connor

When I grip the wheel too tight, I find I lose control.

Steve Rapson

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Christopher Hitchens