I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.

True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination.

Napoleon Bonaparte

We believe every child is created equal with the right to life.

Sarah Palin

If Bill Gates woke up with Oprah's money, he'd jump out the window.

Chris Rock

If a man will not work, he shall not eat.

Bible

Just really, really believe in what you're trying to do. Don't let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line.

Luke Bryan

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

Thomas Aquinas

Home is the nicest word there is.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

Roger Ebert

'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing.

Jerry Saltz

Personally, I'm an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding... I'd be upset.

Emily Blunt

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

Joseph Addison

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.

Alexander Pope