When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.

Ben Nelson

I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.

Bobby Vinton

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

J. G. Ballard

On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

Hafiz

An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Ambrose Bierce

Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.

Virginia Woolf

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Samuel Goldwyn

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

English Proverb

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

Bill Condon

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another -- until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Richard Milhous Nixon, First Ina