Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

It is my baby and if I want to bring it out to play again, I will.

J.K. Rowling

Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong.

Terry Pratchett

Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person.

Carrie Preston

As a chef, you need to respect your guests and their needs. If they decide that they want to eat certain things and not eat others, if for religious reasons or just decide they don't want to eat certain ingredients, you have to respect that.

Joel Robuchon

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

John Evelyn

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.

Stanislav Grof

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

Jay Alan Sekulow

Killing is the payoff of war.

Morley Safer

I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.

Herb Ritts

For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

Ferdinand Mount

All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the public. The officer assisting the passenger never sees the image, and the officer viewing the image never interacts with the passenger. The imaging technology that we use cannot store, export, print or transmit images.

Janet Napolitano