My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

Anthony Kiedis

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Rose Wilder Lane

I have nothing but respect for HBO.

James Gandolfini

Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern this Nation. This difficult effort will be the moral equivalent of war, except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy.

Jimmy Carter

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

Buddha

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.

William Allen White

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Bertrand Russell

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.

Anthony Trollope

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Wendell Phillips

The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.

Percy Ross

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates