I'm the git in the family.

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

Belva Lockwood

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

Charles Franklin Kettering

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Winston Churchill

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

W. C. Fields

Don't be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.

American Indian Proverb, Hopi

By nature I'm not a brooder.

Hugh Jackman

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Doug Horton

Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy . . . well.

John Green

You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown.

Thomas Mann

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.

Harvey Fierstein

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

Julie Andrews

As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown...

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb