For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.

By night an atheist half believes in God.

Edward Young

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

Madame Swetchine

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

Rutherford B. Hayes

I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They're very powerful figures in my life.

Josh Gad

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

Wislawa Szymborska

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death now I see it from my son's perspective.

Rufus Sewell

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

William Shakespeare

Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est.Latin: A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder), Lette

I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

Bruce Sterling

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

Lady Gaga

The aim of life is selfdevelopment. To realize one's nature perfectly that is what each of us is here for.

Oscar Wilde

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

Robert G. Ingersoll