The grain-fields went up the hillsides. Now as we went higher there was a wind blowing the grain.

Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.

Ryan White

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

John Ruskin

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.

Edward F. Halifax

I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith - it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

Robert A. Heinlein, Jubal Harsha

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

Barbara Bush

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

Jim Valvano

For the admired there are many, for the admirer there is one.

Adnan Mithani

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

Al Goldstein

I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take your demo, you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica, and that's the Hollywood car test.

Ryan Tedder

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

Charles Baudelaire

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.