Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Benjamin Franklin

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

Graham Norton

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

Carlos Ghosn

Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being.

Susan Sontag, The Double Standar

It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.

Bill Hybels

and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

James Joyce

Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.

Michel de Montaigne

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

Benjamin Franklin

Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians who work that way. It felt very natural to me, but I think there's a way to do it without it being a jazz record.

Jane Siberry

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

Eamon de Valera

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Carl Sagan