I grew up in New York, and I have that in me, that be-honest-at-all-costs, don't b.s. me attitude. I say, If you've got something to say about me, say it to my face. And then we'll either talk about it or fight about it.

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

Jos

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

Horace Mann

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed.

LaoTzu

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

Phyllis Diller

You've got to have dreams to keep you going.

Steve Waugh

Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves.

Tipper Gore

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Queen Elizabeth

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

Doris Lessing

Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

Aeschylus

I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.

Major Owens

I like to sing around the bonfire, in my car and in the shower.

Jessica Pare