Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory -- to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.

Walter Lippmann

The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment not of sentiment, but of history.

Woodrow Wilson

Montana and I had a chemistry that was unbelievable. When I first came into the league he told me I added five years to his career, and I just think we complimented each other very well and were able to do some amazing things out on the football field.

Jerry Rice

After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.

Bill Budge

Hurry up, mundie boy, we've got work to do.

Cassandra Clare

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

George Orwell

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

George Moore

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Dalai Lama

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

Jodi Picoult

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

Oscar Wilde

Quackery has no friend like gullibility.

Proverb

My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is crazy.

Blake Lively