The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.

The simplest way to customize is to phone members of the audience in advance and ask them what they expect from your session and why they expect it. Then use their quotes throughout your presentation.

Alan Pease

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

Kwame Nkrumah

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Oscar Wilde

I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

People like passion in politics.

Ed Gillespie

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

Richard Dreyfuss

I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.

Oliver Reed

And she was not beautiful asleep. Her expression slack and not angelic. The very ordinariness of it so beautiful he felt a yearning to be something more than he was or could be. And as good a player as he was, he knew as he turned on the reel to reel and hugged the Fender once again that nothing he composed would ever be as beautiful as her ordinary sleep.Watching her he played the music of her sleeping. And by surrendering made something beautiful.

Steven R. Boyett

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

A king's son is no nobler than his company.

Scottish Proverb

I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book.

Fay Wray

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Richard Rorty