Incompetence in mathematics is no proof of brilliance. You must be ignorant of science and geography as well. That is the gold standard of American education.

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

Carly Fiorina

Being honest about your feelings doesn't always mean you're telling the truth.

Lacey Sturm

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Cut out all those exclamation marks. An exclamation mark is like laughing at your own joke.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

Josh Radnor

Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.

Edwin Louis Cole

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

Anne Tyler

I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I never spent so pleasant a month before, or bade any place goodbye so regretfully. I have not once thought of business, or care or human toil or trouble or sorrow or weariness, and the memory of it will remain with me always.

Mark Twain

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

Steve Landesberg

My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.

Mike Shinoda

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Muhammad Ali

There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to even out the deck somewhat.

Jerry Nachman