Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.

Ted Danson

I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back to bed again. It's stupid to think that way.

Antonio Banderas

Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.

Dwight D Eisenhower

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

E. M. Forster

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

John Muir

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that.

David Lloyd

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

Gunther Grass

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

Eleanor Roosevelt

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

Jean de la Bruyere

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Arthur Balfour

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Napoleon Bonaparte