I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.

Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.

Sir Winston Churchill

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

Barbara Jordan

It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I loved it.

Dido Armstrong

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Arabic Proverb

It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.

Edward George BulwerLytton

The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

Charles Horton Cooley

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

Alfred Hitchcock

I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.

Charlie Watts

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.

Laurence Sterne

Gorillas are in danger of being wiped out by the Ebola virus. I feel like we have limited time to get to know them and understand them and they're going to disappear - that's terrifically sad. Wouldn't it be great if we could stop that?

Sara Gruen

On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense.

Jamie Zawinski

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

Eleanor Roosevelt