I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange I never thought I would be.

I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others. When I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Abraham Lincoln

I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.

Charlie Watts

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

Cardinal J. Newman

I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day.

Elton John

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

George Orwell

I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

Max Beerbohm

In the woods is perpetual youth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.

Source Unknown

You don't need really expensive clothes to look cute.

Christy Romano

Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.

Jennifer M. Granholm