The lesson learned: never take your loved ones for granted. And if you're ever lucky enough to find that one person in life who makes you love more than any other person could possible make you love, you treat every day together as if it were your last. You cherish every moment.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

Grover Norquist

I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

Oliver Stone

I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

Audrey Hepburn

What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere.

Arthur Schwartz

Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it

Mahatma Gandhi

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.

Jet Li

Strength is a matter of a made up mind.

John Beecher

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.

Donald Cargill

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

Joyce Brothers

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

Philip Pullman

One of the juiciest pleasures of life is to be able to salute and embrace, as elected leaders and honored representatives, people whom you first met when they were on the run or in exile or (like Adam) in and out of jail. I was to have this experience again, and I hope to have it many more times in the future: it sometimes allows me to feel that life is full of point.

Christopher Hitchens

I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.

Annie Dillard