When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

Henry Miller

Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little.

Chinese Proverb

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

H. L. Mencken

Maybe the best programmers aren't those who spectacularly solve crazy problems, but those who don't create them, which is much more silent.

Lena Herrmann

' it used to be called, even by Jews. 'The Jewish Question.' I find I quite like this interrogative formulation, since the question as Gertrude Stein once famously if terminally put it may be more absorbing than the answer. Of course one is flirting with calamity in phrasing things this way, as I learned in school when the Irish question was discussed by some masters as the Irish 'problem.' Again, the word 'solution' can be as neutral as the words 'question' or 'problem,' but once one has defined a people or a nation as such, the search for a resolution can become a yearning for the conclusive. : the final solution.

Christopher Hitchens

It's like banging my head against the wall, except if I were actually banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop.

Cassandra Clare

Throughout human history beauty has been seen as a gift from God, but Mom had another notion; she thought that beauty could be earned through self-knowledge. It may be a revolutionary idea, but it has offered me great comfort.

Ruth Reichl

I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and I'm in an office with them. So in a weird way - I know I haven't birthed a child - I feel that I'm a part of creating a family. It's a tribe. I love that word.

Drew Barrymore

True poverty does not come from God.

Yiddish Proverb

... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life.

Lisa Genova

I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

JoBeth Williams

The bullying powers use different excuses to prevent transfer of science and technology and progress of the nations of our region.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad