When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when

my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.
Douglass North

The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her and my grandmother would take me to ballets, classical concerts, even smoky jazz clubs I wasn't supposed to be in!
Jill Scott

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Milton Friedman

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.
Leon Wieseltier

For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.
Louis C. K.

I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.
John Burns

I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now.
Tia Carrere

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
John C. Maxwell

If you feel pain, you have to make up your mind whether you can play with it or not.
James Worthy

All my friends are dying. That's why I always wear black.
Joan Rivers