I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Here closed in death th' attentive eyes That saw the manners in the face.

Samuel Johnson

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Bob Dylan

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

Frank C. Carlucci

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Harry S Truman

Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.

Peter Agre

Our blight is ideologies -- they are the long-expected Antichrist!

Carl Gustav Jung

It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy.

Lyndon B. Johnson, Answering Nor

Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.

Caleb Cushing

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Oprah Winfrey

To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art.

John James Audubon

Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

Hedy Lamarr

Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. 'Black Rain' was very much about choices. The message - we are what we chose to be.

Graham Brown