Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.

Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.

Henri Becquerel

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

Henry Ward Beecher

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

Barry Manilow

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye, that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Marie Lovell

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.

Jillian Michaels

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.

A. N. Wilson

Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.

Chrisette Michele

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

Sidney Hook

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.

George Strait

I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i.e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.

Ludwig Feuerbach