Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.

David Lloyd George

All truths are not to be told.

George Herbert

A brave endeavor To do thy duty, whate'er its worth, Is better than life with love forever And love is the sweetest thing on earth.

James Jeffrey Roche

'The 17 Day Diet' keeps your body and metabolism guessing. I call this 'body confusion.'

Mike Moreno

We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history.

Jean Baudrillard

My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

Simon Cowell

Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

Paulo Coelho

We believe that it is very important that we have hopefully averted what would have been the most substantial headwind of all, which is a default for the first time in our history, and that that will contribute to a more positive environment that we hope will allow for greater growth and job creation.

Jay Carney

Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.

Friedrich von Schiller

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

V. S. Naipaul

This is not about hating homosexuals. I don't. I love homosexuals.

Michele Bachmann

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

George Bernard Shaw