They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Albert Einstein

We act the way we dress. Neglected and untidy clothes reflect a neglected and untidy mind.

Source Unknown

If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are in the dark.

Ashly Lorenzana

Why is doubt the one thing we're never skeptical of? We question other peoples' beliefs, and the more sure they are the more we doubt them. But it never occurs to us to doubt our own doubt. Question our own questions. We think our questions are answers.

Orson Scott Card

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

Phil Bredesen

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

Christopher Lasch

I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them.

Nia Vardalos

Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.

Carry Nation

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Francis Bacon

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

William Jennings Bryan

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

Les Brown