"I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life."

“I can count on one hand how many people I trust.”

Source : "High School Musical Starring Frances Bean Cobain". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 08, 2008.

“You're 83? Really? You don't look it. I would've guessed 81 or 82.”

“I am so grateful for after-school snack time, when I light a candle, pour some tea, slice some apples, and get to listen in on my kids' highs and lows of the day.”

“It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.”

Source : Darrell Huff (1993). “How to Lie with Statistics”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

“Any kind of vision needs people.”

“And if you have high cholesterol, you would feel the same as if you had low cholesterol because there are no side effects, no symptoms of having high cholesterol.”

“We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.”

“In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity: "Compare then the blessings enjoyed by Spaniards of prudence, genius, magnanimity, temperance, humanity, and religion with those of the little men [the Indians] in whom you will scarcely find even vestiges of humanity. . . . How can we doubt that these people - so uncivilized, so barbaric, contaminated with so many impieties and obscenities - have been justly conquered?"”