In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

William Makepeace Thackeray

And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.

Janet Napolitano

Had 'Bridesmaids' not ended up being so amazing and successful, we would never have been able to make 'Bachelorette.' So we are in awe of 'Bridesmaids' and totally owe them so much.

Lizzy Caplan

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

When boy likes you, you say no thank you. You don't kick him on the ground.

Jenny Han

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

Les Brown

After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.

Proverb

Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

Ivan Illich

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

Eugene O'Neill

Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice.

Gloria Steinem

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

Adam Osborne

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

James Allen