Die hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

W. H. Auden

Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.

William Alexander Henry

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

Rosalyn S. Yalow

To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Johann von Goethe

She was so fat that her belly button makes an echo.

Rodney Dangerfield

I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.

Orlando Bloom

You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you're giving to them.

Harry Browne

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.

Richard Armour

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is Jackson with his Virginians, standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.

Bernard Elliot Bee

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

William Landay