We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.

George Burns

There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.

Meister Eckhart

You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.

Cassandra Clare

Children are natural mimics -- they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners.

Source Unknown

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Friedrich Nietzsche

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Napoleon Hill

Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.

Andre Gide, Journal

The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people -- if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense -- the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.

John Jay Chapman

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

Pierre Berton

Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.

Sophia Loren

I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.

Garth Brooks

Freedom can occur only through education.

Friedrich Schiller