American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

Natalie Gulbis

And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool -- motley's the only wear.

William Shakespeare

Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.

Roger Wicker

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

Marguerite Duras

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Jonathan Swift

I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

Max Walker

Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is.

Max Muller

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

George Bernard Shaw

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

Elmer Davis

After the dazzling orgies in form and color of the eighteenth century, art was put on a diet, and allowed nothing but the straight line. This sort of progress ended in ugliness. Art reduced to a skeleton, was the result. This was the advantage of this kind of wisdom and abstinence; the style was so sober that it became lean.

Victor Hugo

My friends, there are no friends.

Coco Chanel

Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe