All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

Vincent Van Gogh

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

O. Henry

If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

Barry McCaffrey

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.

William Hazlitt

I like to travel. I love touring, I love playing.

Lita Ford

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.

William Shakespeare

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

George Lucas

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

Andrew Stanton

The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.

Barbara Boxer

Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together.

Thomas Keller

I never saw Death before, and now I seeThat it is warring eyes in a woman's form.

Thiruvalluvar

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

B. C. Forbes