My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.

Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain --if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

Bob Ehrlich

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

William Shakespeare

I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.

Henry J. Kaiser

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

Jane Austen

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

Helen Keller

I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, What for? I said, I'm going to buy some sugar.

Steven Wright

My merry, merry, merry roundelay Concludes with Cupid's curse: They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse!

George Peele

It's superfun being a mom, but it's hard too.

Gwen Stefani

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

Oliver Goldsmith