Today is Valentine's Day - or as men like to call it Extortion Day!

I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior things that a person will say against women profanity being gangster having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.

If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.

On both 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette ' it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying 'Let's date.' Everyone knows those aren't the same things.

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

I think careful cooking is love don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

Western civilization unfortunately does not link knowledge and morality but rather it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

As problems like identity theft become more prevalent now more than ever Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.

Every great man every successful man no matter what the field of endeavor has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

In truth politeness is artificial good humor it covers the natural want of it and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

I like to say jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.

Absolutely there is a connection between food and love. I always say when there's love in my heart or I'm feeling particularly good the food comes out that much better. And so I think Valentine's Day is a special day.

I wanted to be a great white hunter a prospector for gold or a slave trader. But then when I was eight my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.

I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.

Every adversity every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

If you don't have a valentine hang out with your girlfriends don't go looking for someone. When it's right they'll come to you.