It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.

Steve Forbes

People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.

Michael Haneke

Politics is a people business. I like people.

Laura Bush

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

Andre Agassi

I don't like begging money from producers.

David Byrne

Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.

Abraham Lincoln

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

Nathalie Sarraute

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity

George Bernard Shaw

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Maya Angelou

I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.

Henry David Thoreau

Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Francis Bacon