All my band members were old enough to be my dad. It was like this family vibe.

I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.

Christopher Hitchens

A well-aimed spear is worth three.

Tad Williams

I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in.

Ann Richards

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Paul Bourget

What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,That he should weep for her?

William Shakespeare

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Michel de Montaigne

Vineyards and shining harvests, pastures, arbors, And all this our very utmost toil Can hardly care for, we wear down our strength Whether in oxen or in men, we dull The edges of our ploughshares, and in return Our fields turn mean and stingy, underfed, And so today the farmer shakes his head, More and more often sighing that his work, The labour of his hands, has come to naught.

Lucretius, The Way Things Are, B

Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.

Anon.

My school colors were clear. We used to say, I'm not naked, I'm in the band.

Steven Wright

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

Archibald MacLeish

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

Barack Obama

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Samuel Ullman