Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, Go to sleep by yourselves. And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.

Margaret Mead

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Gaston Bachelard

That which is loved may pass, but love hath no end.

Gilbert Parker

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Ronald Reagan

The better part of valour is discretion.

William Shakespeare

My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.

Hugh Jackman

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

Alfred Kazin

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man's frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever.

William James

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

Alain de Botton

Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.

Jesus Christ

When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.

Manal al-Sharif

The hardest part about being a kid is knowing you have got your whole life ahead of you.

Jane Wagner