When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself.

If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.

Gary Bauer

You never know what the American public is going to do, but you know that they will do it all at once.

L. William Seidman

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

George Eliot

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Sam Brown

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Luc De Clapiers

There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.

Tim Burton

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

Bert Williams

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

Rosa Parks

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Benjamin Franklin

Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

Jonathan Swift

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Martin Luther

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Herman Melville