It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

Edward Albert

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Ronald Knox

The regular guy still relates to him and Howard is a $500 million guy now who dates a model and drives about in a limo all day. But Howard still knows how to make a plumber laugh and those guys still have him on in the morning, because he is a real talent.

Artie Lange

To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions ... and faith, the bravest of convictions.

Gerard de Marigny

No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who weeps does not die; weeping is a sign of life; weep, and your life is worth something again.

Halldór Laxness

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.

Erin Morgenstern

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because there were giants standing on my shoulders.

Harold Abelson

Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.

Fred Upton

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O. When may it suffice?

William Butler Yeats

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

G. W. F. Hegel