Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.

Simon Van Booy

Though this be madness, yet there is method

William Shakespeare

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

Sara Paretsky

I think my dad is a lot cooler than other dads. He still acts like he's still 17.

Miley Cyrus

one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half

Jane Austen

I saw Courtney Love have one of her heroin fits....and break a guitar. So I pulled up a chair. What? You gotta be ring-side!

Kathy Griffin

Of course, I'm older now. I'm in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for 'Car Wheels' or 'Essence' or whatever. Different things were going on.

Lucinda Williams

The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity.

Thomas Robert Malthus

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

Lady Bird Johnson

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Pope John XXIII

We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.

Barbara Boxer