Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Alexander Pope

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.

Jennifer Aniston

My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.

Wendy Liebman

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Oliver Platt

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Albert Camus

Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity.

Andrew Shue

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

Brigham Young

Free speech is about as good as cause as the world has ever known. But, like the poor, it is always with us and gets shoved aside in favour of things which seem at some given moment more vital.

Heywood Broun, The Miracle of De

A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble

Voltaire

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

Oscar Wilde

The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . . . It is the cheap cloth, the cheap cotton and rayon fabric, boots, motorcars and so on that are the typical achievements of capitalist production, and not as a rule improvements that would mean much to the rich man. Queen Elizabeth owned silk stockings. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within reach of factory girls.

Joseph Schumpeter

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

Victor Hugo