Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

Bertolt Brecht

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.

Calvin Trillin

Lean forward into your life...catch the best bits and the finest wind. Just tip your feathers in flight a wee bit and see how dramatically that small lean can change your life.

Mary Anne Radmacher

The Sun never sets. It is we who rise think to shine.

Earle Birney

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Peter Drucker

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Stephen King

Woman absent is woman dead.

Ambrose Bierce

The private sector must play a role in ensuring the prosperity and health of the people who comprise its market. It is time for the private sector to become a proactive partner contributing to the efforts of governments and philanthropies.

Simon Mainwaring

Maybe with your emotions and your feelings, someone else can say it in a different way than you would, which brings new life to the way you might sing it.

Jody Watley

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

Michael Reagan

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

Nikki Giovanni