The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much.

The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.

Candace Bushnell

A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.

Jonathan Kozol

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Randolph Silliman Bourne, Youth

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

George William Curtis

The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.

Ron Chernow

I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.

Stephen Harper

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

Avicenna

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Another club can be beating you for six innings but for some reason the good ball clubs get tough and win them in the last three.

Billy Martin

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

Charles Horton Cooley

Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Morris L. Ernst

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

Raymond Chandler