I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Fay B. Nash

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.

Joe Biden

Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone.

Rodney Dangerfield

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

Frank Langella

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Lao Tzu

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. . . . Man is the more man -- that is, the more divine -- the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Se

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Ludwig van Beethoven

I have been a Christian all my life, but it's impossible to be so deeply involved in these stories without it making you think again, and without it making you consciously aware of the people involved.

Della Reese

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination is the highest form of research.

Albert Einstein

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso