Give us that grand word woman once again, and let's have done with lady; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.

But I've always felt a need to have a life which is completely separate - at least as far as possible - from the kind of illusory lifestyle that comes with being a celebrity.

Winona Ryder

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Auguste Comte

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Will Rogers

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

M Scott Peck

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

John Ruskin

If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.

John Woolman

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Martin Lawrence

I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.

Tommy Hilfiger

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Tony Robbins

Music is the key to the female heart.

Johann G. Seume

The episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them.

Sarah Michelle Gellar