When you fight yourself to discover the real you, there is only one winner.

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

Rosie O'Donnell

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

Isabel Allende

G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.

Nelson Demille

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

John F. Kennedy

I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity.

Christopher Hitchens

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

Samuel Butler

The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

Orison Swett Marden

We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules.

Nick Clegg

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Wolfman Jack Smith

But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.

Samuel Johnson

I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.

Tony Campolo

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

Christopher Fry