The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

For in music there is no material to be deducted.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Martin Luther

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Oscar Wilde

O love, how did you get here?--Nick and the Candlestick

Sylvia Plath

Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

Chris Evert

The beauty of voice-over work is that maybe you come in and record once every two weeks for a couple of hours and do a couple episodes a session. It's awesome! You spend an afternoon playing in the booth, and there you have it. It doesn't interfere with much.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

Marion Jones

I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.

Tori Amos

I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health.

Lois Capps

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.

Joan Rivers

My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.

Brett Ratner