I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer.

If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.

Anna Quindlen

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Muriel Spark

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

Justin Halpern

Do the next thing.

John Wanamaker

May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

Zebulon Pike

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.

Evo Morales

In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.

Hillary Clinton

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.

Mary Lou Retton

Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older than me), I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method.

Frederick Sanger

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Mother Theresa

The more upset a person is with other people, and with circumstances, and the more satisfied he is with himself, the further he is from wisdom.

Leo Tolstoy