A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

There is today in the United States as much forest as there was when Washington was at Valley Forge

Ronald Reagan

God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built.

King Hussein I

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

Jeff Bingaman

Make me into anything, but just love me.

Chuck Palahniuk

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Maria Shriver

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Dr. Seuss

it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.

Kathryn Stockett

The conqueror is regarded with awe the wise man commands our respect but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

William Dean Howells

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

Paul Stanley

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.

Henry Louis Gates

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Thomas Kempis

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.

Ralph Waldo Emerson