Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.

I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

If a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove.

American Indian Proverb, Cheyenn

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Michel de Montaigne

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

Andy Warhol

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

George Herbert

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

Margaret Mead

You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

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You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Ansel Adams

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

Henry Miller

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

Karl Lagerfeld

Concentrate more on your achievements than your failures. Learn to take the failures as opportunities to rectify your errors.

Stephen Richards

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

Benjamin Disraeli