The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

Lady Gaga

I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.

Paula Radcliffe

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Arnold Bennett

I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.

Taylor Swift

Happy is the man whose deeds are greater than his learning

Midrash

There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch.

Thomas Frank

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

Lord Chesterfield

Sometimes things have to be broken and reformed to become truly beautiful.

Kristen Reed

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Oscar Wilde

Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?

Dionne Warwick

THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn.

Ken Hensley