We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

Bob Newhart

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

Sarah Bernhardt

The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

Orison Swett Marden

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

Joni Mitchell

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

Kurt Vonnegut

The very same reason which one man may regard as a motive for taking care to prolong his life may be regarded by another man as a motive for shooting himself.

Miguel de Unamuno

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

Richard Russo

Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

Mark Twain

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

Christopher Lasch

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Marcel Proust

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel