I grew up with baseball I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Will Rogers

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

Walter Benjamin

I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!

Scott Bakula

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

Theodore Bikel

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

Robert Byrne

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

Walter Russell Mead

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If one party resolves to demand what the other resolves to refuse, the dispute can be determined only by arbitration; and between powers who have no common superior, there is no other arbitrator than the sword

Samuel Johnson

Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done.

Julia Woodruff

I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you.

Steven Adler

The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.

Dirk Bogarde