Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.

Christina Aguilera

I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise.

Saul Kripke

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

Douglas MacArthur

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

William C. Bryant

At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life, if secured against all liability to account.

Thomas Jefferson

If you respect yourself in stressful situations, it will help you see the positive… It will help you see the message in the mess.

Steve Maraboli

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.

Jessica Alba

I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

Britney Spears

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

Edgar Rice Burroghs