Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.

You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.

Adam Clayton

Use your precious moments to live life fully every single second of every single day.

Wieder Marcia

There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.

Brian Hays

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

James Madison

Never enter into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Thomas Jefferson

The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.quoted by Rex Seline in Fort Worth, Texas, Star-Telegram

Elaine Agather

Real life seems to have no plots.

Ivy Compton Burnett

Let me tell you a story. The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program. The reporter had been assigned a theory and was seeking sound bites to support it. Wouldn't you say, she asked, that killings like this are influenced by violent movies? No, I said, I wouldn't say that. But what about 'Basketball Diaries'? She asked. Doesn't that have a scene of a boy walking into a school with a machine gun? The obscure 1995 Leonardo Di Caprio movie did indeed have a brief fantasy scene of that nature, I said, but the movie failed at the box office, and it's unlikely the Columbine killers saw it. The reporter looked disappointed, so I offered her my theory. Events like this, I said, if they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is assigned a logo and a theme song; These two kids were packaged as the Trench Coat Mafia. The message is clear to other disturbed kids around the country: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous. The TV will talk about nothing else but me. Experts will try to figure out what I was thinking. The kids and teachers at school will see they shouldn't have messed with me. I'll go out in a blaze of glory.

Roger Ebert

Children make your life important.

Erma Bombeck

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Judy Garland

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

Walt Disney

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

Carrie Vaughn