History is the best medicine for a sick mind, for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see, and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings: fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through to avoid.

In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.

Jack Steinberger

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

Theodore White

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

P. J. O'Rourke

Then, instead of telling her that where there was life there was hope, or to let a smile be her umbrella, or that it was always darkest just before the dawn, or anything else that had just lately fallen out of the dog's ass, she simply held her. Because sometimes only holding was best. That was one of the things she had taught that man whose last name she had taken for her own--that sometimes it was best to be quiet; sometimes it was best to just shut your everlasting mouth and hang on, hang on, hang on.

Stephen King

I have enough music coming out of my kids' bedrooms when I'm at home.

Rod Stewart

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope for greater favours.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

John Ruskin

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

Horace

I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas.

Frank Butler

Celebrity is death --- celebrity -- that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

John Cusack

I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I say, I think I might have written that.

Steven Wright

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

Hannah Arendt