In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.

While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.

Kit Bond

I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.

Lasse Hallstrom

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Robert M. Pirsig

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I was born under a lucky star, and I have nothing whatsoever to regret. I wouldn't change a thing about my life.

Richard Branson

There are two ways not to suffer from poverty. The first is to acquire more wealth. The second is to limit your requirements. The first is not always within our power, but the second is always in our power.

Leo Tolstoy

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Herbert Hoover

But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.

Gregg Easterbrook

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

Gertrude Stein

Peace through Strength, surely history's most exploded nostrum.

Christopher Hitchens

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Muhammad Ali

Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.

George Orwell