If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If I'm in a relationship, that girl gets showered with letters from the road. I pour my heart into it.

Jason Mraz

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Leonardo da Vinci

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

Bell Hooks

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.

Gordon Ramsay

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

Manuel Puig

My agent says that I'm a 'repeat business guy.' If you hire me to come do a movie, I'll be on time, know all my material, be ready to go, have a good attitude. I'm here to work, so I get hired over and over again by the same producers. If you just be a team player on set you can work so much more often.

Dean Cain

I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10, 000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.

Source Unknown

If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.

Thomas Jefferson

Like baseball, food will never go out of style we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

Gail Simmons

In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.

Christian Bale

The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.

Evo Morales