I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

Alan Rickman

Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.

James Baldwin

You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.

Dean Koontz

I started out modeling at a young age and surrounded myself with different brilliant minds. I have so many people to get educated from, and I've been a sponge.

Kellan Lutz

All of my friends are animal people. To me, cats are people, too. Animals are people, too. I travel a lot and when I go overseas, it's really hard on me because the animals are treated much differently, especially in developing countries.

AnnaLynne McCord

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

John Naisbitt

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

Dame Edith Sitwell

Without Free Choice Vouchers, there is little in the health reform law that discourages employers from increasingly passing the burden of health care costs onto their employees.

Ron Wyden

Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five barred gate. A dog by instinct turns aside Who sees the ditch too deep and wide, But man we find the only creature Who, led by folly, combats nature; Who, when she loudly cries

Jonathan Swift

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

James H. Robinson

Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.

J. Michael Straczynski

Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

Paul Getty