Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

Katey Sagal

To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.

William Shakespeare

Do you want to be power in the world? Then be yourself.

Ralph Waldo Trine

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

Carl Hiaasen

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

Tim Finn

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg...

George Eliot, Felix Holt, ch. 15

That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.

Brian De Palma

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.

Jim Costa

Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.

Source Unknown

It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

Karl Rove