I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don't know what it is, anybody's only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives.

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?

Aldrich Ames

From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,There's nothing worth the wear of winning,But laughter and the love of friends.

Hilaire Belloc, Dedicatory Ode S

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Abraham Maslow

My very sassy, older southern sister is very quick to point out that it's a luxury that my daughter gets to come to work with me. She does, and I have lunch with her every single day. My mom says I have 'high class problems.'

Angela Kinsey

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.

Ruth J. Simmons

I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.

Stanislav Grof

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

Roy Rogers

Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

Stendhal

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

Yousuf Karsh

Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!

Jerry Brown

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.

John Donne