On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.

Linda Gray

I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent.

Nicolas Cage

There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.

Dee Dee Myers

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.

Norah Jones

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Charles Caleb Colton

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.

Sidney Blumenthal

The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.

Sean Lennon

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.

Henry Louis Gates

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

Karen Armstrong

What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.

Simon Mainwaring

No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just... come out the other side. Or you don't.

Stephen King