My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass.

Discipline must come through liberty. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

Maria Montessori

My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.

Candace Parker

My family is awesome.

Miranda Lambert

Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.

Cassandra Clare

If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

Robert Floyd

Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Jung

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Pablo Picasso

My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.

Gary Locke

Tut, tut. We can't let mere sentiment intrude. This is Science.

K.W. Jeter

Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

Karl Kraus

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

Igor Stravinsky

My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when you're in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things, like entertaining at home.

Carson Daly