Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Publilius Syrus

I am dwelling on things I love, even if a measure of tragedy is stitched into everything, if you follow the thread long enough

Sebastian Barry

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

Jennifer Garner

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

Samuel Adams

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

Abraham Lincoln

Die Welt ist voller Torheit, Dumpfheit, Inkonsequenz und Ungerechtigkeit. Es gehört viel Mut dazu, diesen nicht das Feld zu räumen.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.

Julia Roberts

I am beautiful for a brainy woman, brainy for a beautiful woman, but objectively speaking, neither beautiful nor brainy.

Rebecca Goldstein

It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

Pamela Anderson

Grief makes one hour ten

William Shakespeare

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.

Tom Baker

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

Thomas Babington Macaulay