Since it is one of the great attributes of our species to be susceptible of improvement and capable of experiencing the most beneficial changes, for this reason what are vulgarly called 'venerable establishments' will often range themselves in opposition to the best interests of the community.
The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.
To see your spouse in a parental role is one of the most incredible things.
It's doesn't just come overnight, you've got to train for it and believe in yourself; that's the most important thing.
Why can't women get along? Because we're afraid. We're afraid to be vulnerable. We're afraid to be soft. We're afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we're afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious.
For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
I loved reading and writing, and teaching was the most exalted profession I could imagine.
Michelle Pfeiffer in Tim Burton's 'Batman' was one of the most inspiring - I saw that and I was like, 'I want to be her, I want to do that.'
At most schools, if you switch majors, you basically start over. That means more semesters... and more money. The former might be appealing, but the latter is a major problem for a demographic already saddled with student debt.
I find most of the things I've done through the Internet. I'm like, 'Oh, that's how that turned out! I look good!'
The Chinese have a habit of reading. Many families regard books as the most valuable family asset.
Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
I'm more interested in character than events. I've observed that about myself as a writer. I find events, even the most dramatic sort, not to be such fertile ground.
When I think back to some of the most fun nights of my life, it was just me out dancing without a care in the world. It's a release, an outlet.
Glenn Slater is my lyricist who, of the new young lyricists coming along, is the most exciting, I think.
I made most of my living doing beauty, because I was never really the fashion person.
Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.
I think I'm like most people - we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don't deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it's very hard not to be fearless.
The sheer magnitude of Speaker Pelosi's spending spree is mind boggling. Most of us do not use the number 1,000,000,000,000 in our daily lives, so it is difficult to attach tangible value to the figure.
Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult.
I was told by my agent that a number of big stars won't work with anyone two inches taller than them and most of them are under six feet, so you have to be prepared to have trouble.
I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.
I wanted to stay on TV because I've got kids who are school-aged, so I get to see them most days as opposed to going away for movies months and months at a time.
All these cities I go to, I never see them. They may be the most beautiful places in the world, but I'll just usually go to the nearest bar. I need a couple of hours by myself.
Back on September 11, terrorists attacked our metropolitan cores, two of America's great cities. They did that because they knew that was where they could do the most damage and weaken us the most.
Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.
We're all in this together, and we all have to make an investment in our most precious possession and in the foundation of our future: our young people.
Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies.
I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science.
My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.
Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.
Physics is the most basic part of science and, of course, math. It gives you insight into everything - a foundation, I should say, to understand nature and the universe.
Most of the shows I want to do I'm not smart enough to figure out how to watch.
I've been my most happy and my most unhappy in relationships. I have family and friends and people I care very much about. I've got a really, really, really good life.
