Relative to the world's other advance democracies, Americans get off easy on tax day. Of the 35 richest countries, the U.S. ranks 32nd in total tax burden.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

The business is so upside down now. It's not just about the bling-bling.

I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.

Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is.

A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true.

Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the UK.

In my house you have to talk to cats because, being ten of them, there are a lot of important things you have to say to them-like 'Get off' and 'Shut up' and things like that.

Appreciate yourself for who you’re not for what you’re.

Unhealthy people tend to be unhappy people.

I directed the first "Twilight" movie. It was in my contract that I could have gone on to do the other films, but I didn't feel as connected to the other books.

I don't think that (U.S. President) George Bush...is a man of honor.

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.

I recognize that on paper, you can't really tell that I'm a fan or a nerd.

I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. It is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrassments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.