I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania.

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.

John Desmond Bernal

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Audrey Hepburn

Do not invest time and money into yourself to have others completely destroy it!

Stephen Richards

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears.

Richard Russo

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Melanie Clark

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.

Jurgen Habermas

Life is full of alternatives but no choice.

Patrick White

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Truth...never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.

John Milton

When we were scared about 9/11, we federalized the airport security, we spent millions for body armor for dogs in Ohio. All that over-reaction comes from fear and government - bad combination.

John Stossel

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter