Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

Peter Jennings

Courage, Love, Illusion (or dream, if you will) -- he who possesses all three, or two, or at least one of these things wins whatever there is to win; those who lack all three are the failures.

Edward Lewis Wallant

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments ar

Thomas Jefferson

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

Dennis P. Kimbro

Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.

Lucinda Williams

I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Edward W. Howe

Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?

Norman Cousins, Saturday Review

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Nolan Ryan

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Bertrand Russell

Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.

George Weigel

Reviewers...must normally function as huff-and-puff artists blowing laggard theatergoers stageward.

Walter Kerr, Statement quoted in

Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.

Grant Hill