I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.

David Duchovny

The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is another liar... I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does.

Helen Thomas

The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.

Orson Welles

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

Norah Jones

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Thomas Carlyle

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

Maya Lin

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Maggie Gallagher

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Napoleon Hill

Man reaches his perfection, not through what he has, not even through what he does, but entirely through what he is.

Oscar Wilde

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

James Joyce

Things are only impossible until they are not.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard