I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Robert Frost

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

Charles Dickens

The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions.

Leonard Boswell

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

Thomas Jefferson

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

Samuel Beckett

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

John Kasich

No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

John F. Kennedy

Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.

J. B. Yeats, Letters to His Son,

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

Steven Spielberg

Among the three or four million cradles now rocking in the land are some which this nation would preserve for ages as sacred things, if we could know which ones they are.

Mark Twain

When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything - going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.

Alanis Morissette