I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Oscar Wilde

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

Eric Berne

Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.

Bill Vaughan

Drive thy business, let not that drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

George Santayana

If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.

Gregory David Roberts

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I'm lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I'll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.

Shakira

In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.

Loretta Young

Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and it's all different.

Michael Mandelbaum

I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen, and I didn't care to know. That was my mom's job, I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you can't trust your mom, then who can you trust?

Anna Chlumsky

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Blaise Pascal