When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.

I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.

Thomas Jefferson

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's so amazing, standing on the corner -this happened in Washington, D.C. - and somebody comes by in a Cadillac and you hear 'Manic Monday' on the radio, and you don't even know this person, and they're listening to it and singing along with it. Wow! Blows your mind.

Debbi Peterson

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

Diane Abbott

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

Stephen King

I still don't look at myself as a star. I've always had a thankful heart.

Brenda Lee

Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.

Chinese Proverb

When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny.

Mindy Kaling

That ephemeral sheet,... the newspaper, is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.

Edmond de Goncourt, Journal, Jul

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Robert Frost

There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.

Bobby Orr

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Lyndon B. Johnson