My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

Dwight D Eisenhower

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

Akhenaton

I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.

Eric Bana

There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.

Stephen King

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Plato

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

Francis Bacon

I'm not really much of a shopper. I have to say that I'd definitely prefer good sex. What makes good sex? Oh my god. I think you need to feel free and you have to really trust the other person. And you have to have that strange, mysterious chemical connection.

Kristin Davis

The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry. And I think it's one of the reasons that some people don't like the books, but I think that's it's a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth.

J.K. Rowling

It's astonishing how important a man becomes when he dies.

Yiddish Proverb

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

Thomas B. Macaulay

I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.

Henry J. Kaiser

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Edmund Burke