Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

Michael Kinsley

I save my dreams and hopes for my kids. When I'm making a wish under a bridge or tunnel, it's always for them.

Alison Sweeney

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Blaise Pascal

I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling.

Rick Boucher

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory -- the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.

Herman Melville

The commonwealth is sick of their own choice;Their over-greedy love has surfeited.An habitation giddy and unsureHath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.

William Shakespeare

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.

Muhammad Ali

Dress shabbily, they notice the dress. Dress impeccably, they notice the woman.

Coco Chanel

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

Norman Douglas

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Henry James