When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

Salman Rushdie

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

Damian Lewis

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

Laurence J. Peter

Hunger is the handmaid of genius

Mark Twain

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

Arabella Weir

Putin has a lot at stake here and restoring the relationship with the United States, and there are already signs as Sandy mentioned that he's moving in the right direction to begin to ascertain that their trade with Iran is not used for the production of nuclear weapons.

Frank Carlucci

I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

Joel Osteen

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

William Graham Sumner

This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.

Ai Weiwei

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

Henny Youngman

My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.

Lea Michele