I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn.

Gresham Barrett

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

Oscar Wilde

The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried them further, in exposure to hardship and danger, than ever the New England colonist went, and led them, though not to clear and colonize the wilderness, yet

Henry David Thoreau

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

Marlon Brando

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

L. Schefer

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

Marion Jones

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Maria Montessori

Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job.

Ray Bradbury, From the foreward

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

Charlie Chaplin

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

Harry S. Truman

Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.

Agustin GomezArcos

I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain.

Jessica Biel