America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

Stephen King

My opponents attitude is, 'If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it.

Rob Simmons

The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

Jos

I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.

Anita Diamant

People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.

Michael Wilbon

I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.

Robert A. Heinlein

Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize.

Michael Zaslow

We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.

Henry David Thoreau

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.

Donald Rumsfeld

President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.

Conan O'Brien

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

George Santayana