If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.

Ann Richards

The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives. The only method of doing this is to assume a perfect resignation to the Divine will, to consider that whatever does happen, must happen; and that, by our uneasiness, we cannot prevent the blow before it does fall, but we may add to its force after it has fallen. These considerations, and others such as these, may enable us in some measure to surmount the difficulties thrown in our way; to bear up with a tolerable degree of patience under the burden of life; and to proceed with a pious and unshaken resignation, till we arrive at our journey's end.

Thomas Jefferson

I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.

Danica McKellar

My Food Network shows, 'Emeril Live' and 'Essence of Emeril,' are not in production right now, but I wouldn't say that I'm necessarily leaving Food Network. I have a lot of television still in me. I enjoy teaching people, so it's just a matter of time before I do something new.

Emeril Lagasse

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

Tom Stoppard

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.

Diana Ross

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

Polly Toynbee

The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.

Vanessa Paradis

Success covers a multitude of blunders

George Bernard Shaw

There is a syndrome in sports called paralysis by analysis.

Arthur Ashe

Freedom is in the Now

Arnaud Saint-Paul

His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.

Salvatore Satta