I sat down on the sofa, surrounded by years of coffee rings and sandwich stains. If the police ever did a DNA test on this sofa, it would be ninety per cent disappointment.

We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.

Malcolm Wallop

I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.

Uma Thurman

I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.

Elizabeth Edwards

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Robert William Service

Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.

Donald Rumsfeld

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

Stefan Zweig

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

Yehuda Berg

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

Henry Miller

You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Caleb Colton