“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”

— George Orwell

“Nothing can really prepare you for when you get in the Formula One car. Knowing that you’re driving a multimillion-dollar car, and if you crash it it’s going to cost a lot of money, and they might not give you another chance, is scary.”

— Lewis Hamilton

“Cartooning is for people who can’t quite draw and can’t quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.”

— Matt Groening

“Making a living out of acting sounded like science-fiction when I was growing up. I didn’t know anyone around me who lived from anything related to art.”

— Penelope Cruz

“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.”

— Henry J. Kaiser

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“We all come to the point where it’s time to get yourself straight, as a businesswoman, a mother, whatever you are in life. It’s tough love but it’s also being real with yourself. It’s important to take those rose-colored glasses off and see what’s going on.”

— Kelly Rowland

“Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.”

— Michael Kors

“I remember as a little boy I ate one meal a day and sometimes slept in the street. I will never forget that and it inspires me to fight hard, stay strong and remember all the people of my country, trying to achieve better for themselves.”

— Manny Pacquiao

“I don’t think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.”

— Wilma Mankiller

“Quite often, while I’m getting up in the morning, I think my warranty is running out on these body parts because it’s not working quite the way it used to.”

— John Glenn

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”

— Dolly Parton

“I was up watching ‘Meet Joe Black’ at four AM. I was hoping Brad Pitt would die, and he was still alive at seven forty in the morning! I actually felt sorry for once, for critics.”

— Rose McGowan

“Men tell me that I’ve saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it’s cheaper than a divorce. So I’m still useful, you see.”

— Manolo Blahnik

“The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.”

— Aristotle

“My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything — even if you have no clue what you’re doing.”

— Jessica Alba

“The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.”

— Steve Tyler

“Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.”

— George S. Patton

“It never dawned on me that I had the option of becoming a comedian. I come from a little dirt street town in northwest Texas, and they really don’t talk about the arts there much on career day.”

— Ron White