To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

Primo Levi

My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.

Kate Bosworth

I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it to my kids once. I said, 'Mommy used to be kind of cool, kind of like a Britney Spears.'

Genie Francis

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Bernard Mandeville

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

Neil Peart

Make it happen today!

Stephen Richards

I asked my wife if she would put out the garbage. She said...Why should I... you never put out for me.

Rodney Dangerfield

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present -- which seldom happens to us.

Jean de la Bruyere

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Florence Nightingale

What's done to children, they will do to society.

Karl A. Menninger

Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.

James Caan

We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.

King Hussein I