Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do.

Do we mean love, when we say love?

Samuel Beckett

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

James Baldwin

Oh my son's my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all her life.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Dale Carnegie

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.

Molly Ivins

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

John Webster

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

Richard P. Feynman

What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.

Aldous Huxley

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.

Neil Gaiman

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

Jean Piaget

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Abraham Lincoln

LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

Ambrose Bierce