Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

Michael Jackson

I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.

Billy Sherwood

The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say

Tom Stoppard

And I have to point out that government doesn't tax to get the money it needs, government always needs the money it gets.

Ronald Reagan

What I love the most is getting on the ice and just popping in a fabulous CD and skating - all by myself, the rink completely empty, just me and the music.

Michelle Kwan

I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.

Paul Lynde

When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.

Drew Carey

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.

Jeffrey Kluger

A culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has an infection, the immune system deals with it. Similarly, a group enforces its norms, either actively or passively.

Henry Cloud

I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

Tanith Lee

It takes one hour of preparation for each minute of presentation time.

Wayne Burgraff