The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

Douglass North

It's important to still look like yourself on your wedding day, so I didn't do anything drastic.

Lily Aldridge

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

We're not trying to reinvent the wheel for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

Ted Danson

None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair, But love can hope where reason would despair.

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lytt

A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles.

George Bernard Shaw

The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.

Robin Roberts

I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

Arthur Golden

I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past

Leo Rosten, Captain Newman, M.D.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

Francis Ford Coppola

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

Oliver Goldsmith

Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.

Josie Maran