My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

My old man, he carries around the picture of the kid that came with the wallet.

Rodney Dangerfield

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse

George Bernard Shaw

Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free.

Taraji P. Henson

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

Wendell Phillips

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

Scotty Bowman

A late lark twitters from the quiet skies:And from the west,Where the sun, his day's work ended,Lingers as in content,There falls on the old, gray cityAn influence luminous and serene,A shining peace.

William Ernest Henley

In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut things become.

Mary Roach

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Joan Didion

Of course, my family has been a big reason for me to come back, especially my son who loves the game of hockey - he was a big reason for me coming back.

Mario Lemieux

Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.

S. W. Duffield

To me, the most important thing is happiness.

Sheryl Swoopes