The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.

If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.

Louis Farrakhan

On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.

Jesse Jackson

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

Jonathan Krohn

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

Peter Diamandis

Man is not made for defeat.

Ernest Hemingway

I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.

Wilfred Grenfell

The soul can not think without a picture.

Aristotle

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.

Walter Annenberg

Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo Grotius

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Antisthenes

You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?

J.K. Rowling

Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect.

Lou Brock