I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.

Dinner is a great first date. Don't believe that stuff about girls not wanting to eat on a first date - sharing a romantic meal is so sexy.

Carmen Electra

Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers.

Terry McAuliffe

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

Clara Barton

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

Henry David Thoreau, The Writing

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Sydney Smith

The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.

Maria De Beausacq

Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and...Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Mark Twain

Every day, the New York Times carries a motto in a box on its front page. All the News That's Fit to Print, it says. It's been saying it for decades, day in and day out. I imagine most readers of the canonical sheet have long ceased to notice this bannered and flaunted symbol of its mental furniture. I myself check every day to make sure that the bright, smug, pompous, idiotic claim is still there.

Christopher Hitchens

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

Anthony Robbins

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

Walter Gilbert