He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail a hug, in the same way that closing a big business deal may call for a handshake.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Johann von Goethe

Every burden is a blessing.

Robert H. Schuller

I was a personality before I became a person. I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

Barbra Streisand, Interview with

My mom wasn't a movie star.

Jeff Bridges

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.

Shay Mitchell

There are worse things than losing an election; the worst thing is to lose one's convictions and not tell the people the truth.

Adlai Stevenson

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

Diane Arbus

I have always said, the first Whig was the Devil

Samuel Johnson

Time is waste of money.

Oscar Wilde

Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

Mitt Romney

The rise of the welfare state, on the one hand, and of the military bureaucracy, on the other, are instances of the manner in which technology is enforcing a socialization of life.

Robert Heilbroner

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable,

Princess of Wales Diana