Rose wasn't 'ordinary'. What was I supposed to do? Wrap her in cotton wool? Tell her 'Here, I could give you the universe, but I'm not going to in case you get hurt? There's all this stuff out there, all these planets, all these wonders, but I want you to stay at home and work in a shop?

I love comedy, so you want to make them happy, make them laugh.

Delta Burke

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

Tom G. Palmer

Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

William Shakespeare

Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

Francis Bacon

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

Brian Tracy

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Blaise Pascal

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Abraham Sutzkever

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

Tom Wilson

It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

Marshall McLuhan

There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.

Will Rogers

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

Charles Kettering