Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Children are likely to live up to what you believe in them.

The environment is where we all meet where all have a mutual interest it is the one thing all of us share.

Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman it just makes you look better to have a little color.

Where flowers bloom so does hope.

Walk away from it until you're stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

Encourage & support your kids because 'Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Lately, I've been playing very fashion-forward, popular girls, which is great because it's led me to things like this Nintendo 3DS 'Style Savvy' campaign. It'd be fun to do something a bit dorkier - or quirkier!

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.

I own more pairs of Calvin Klein underwear than I can count. At any given time, I probably have 50 to 60 pairs on deck. I travel with an entire suitcase of underwear and t-shirts, and they're all Calvin Klein.

I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.

Clarity of your thoughts makes your actions precise :-) Whenever you feel your actions are not appropriate, watch out your thoughts... :-)

People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly.

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

I believe in justice, maybe not in this life, but there has to be justice. And if there isn't a God, I think it would be very depressing. I'd prefer to believe there is.

Just because we are women doesn't mean the only roles we can play are that of the finger-shaking girlfriend.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure.

The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.

You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress.

Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.

A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.

My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.

'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

Short as life is we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Children are mirrors, they reflect back to us all we say and do.

I've got four kids, so I plan ahead. I have to book flights far in advance, look at accommodation, where it is, what you can and can't do. Same in running.