To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Dale Carnegie

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Thomas Hobbes

We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy.

Marilu Henner

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.

John le Carre

I wake up and tear drops, they fall down like rain. I put on that old song we danced to and then, I head off to my job cause not much has changed. Punch the clock, head for home, check the phone. Just in case. Go to bed, dream of you. That's what I am doing these days.

Rascal Flatts

I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.

Jean Alesi

These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.

Barry Manilow

I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.

Regis Philbin

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

Stephen King

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

Oscar Wilde

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Peter De Vries

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

H. L. Mencken