When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

Johnny Depp

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

George Bernard Shaw

I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.

Buddy Hackett

I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.

Arlen Specter

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

A. Owen Penny

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.

Benjamin Franklin

I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.

Nick Cannon

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Albert Einstein

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

George Burns

Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent.

Shirley Henderson