The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

My watch is three hours fast, and I can't fix it. So I'm goingto move to New York.

Steven Wright

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. Or something. I dunno, I was only half listening. Becca said it, anyway. Ask her.http://www.beliefnet.com/story/159/story_15928_1.html

M Scott Peck

You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96.

Joe Lieberman

I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge.

Rachael Ray

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

Swami Vivekananda

A vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.

Morris Fishbein

When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.

Mitt Romney

Science is what scientists do.

Dennis Flanagan

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Doing a little work around the house. I put fake brickwallpaper over a real brick wall, just so I'd be the only onewho knew. People come over and I'm gonna say, Go ahead, touchit... It feels real.

Steven Wright