Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.

Not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Albert Einstein

I had no occasion for an apron on that morning.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.

Ellen Barkin

I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.

Courtney Love

I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

Gerald R. Ford

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

Andrew Shue

Music inflames temperament.

Jim Morrison

Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.

Georges Cuvier

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develops real self-confidence based upon his own ability, upon his own action, and upon his own initiative.

J. Martin Kohe

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

Oliver Wendell Holmes