It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

Jerry Hall

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

Gioacchino Antonio Rossini

Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind.

William Cowper

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

Paul Harris

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

Steve Jobs

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Caroline Kennedy

'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

Joseph Addison

I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

had been equally obvious. The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organisers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists and professional politicians. These people, whose origins

George Orwell

That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.

Paul Ryan

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.

Arlen Specter

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?

Betty Friedan