You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.

If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.

Joycelyn Elders

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

Edward Steichen

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

John W. Foster

In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.

Rowan Atkinson

I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across.

Jim Barksdale

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare

We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.

Susan Taylor

The first step is to fill your life with a positive faith that will help you through anything. The second is to begin where you are.

Norman Vincent Peale

Nutrition science is where surgery was in about 1650, you know, really interesting and promising, but would you want to have them operate on you yet? I don't think so.

Michael Pollan

Fantasy is totally wide open all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.

Octavia Butler

Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people.

Kinky Friedman

To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.

William Shakespeare