I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place.

I have a fantastic studio in my home, and it's my biggest toy. I have about a half a million dollars worth of musical equipment in my house.

Antonio Banderas

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Sophocles

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

Ralph Ellison

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

Once you go on welfare it changes you. Even if you get off welfare, you never escape the stigma that you were a charity case. You're scarred for life.

Jeannette Walls

My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.

Sadaharu Oh

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Corrie Ten Boom

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

Eric Liu

You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country's success.

Michael Bloomberg

Doing the tough things sets winners apart from losers.

Stephen Richards

The road to success runs uphill.

Willie Davis

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Walter Kane