The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.

Rachael Ray

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

P. J. O'Rourke

There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference where the theme comes from the treatment of it can be jazz.

Dave Brubeck

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

John Selden

In 1883 while I was working at the London Hospital I chanced to turn in to one of D. L. Moody's great tent meetings in the slums of East London. I was amazed to see on the platform with him several men whose athletic prowess was world-famous. That was a credential to me that it was worth stopping to listen to what was going to be said. I still believe athletic success is an invaluable asset to a preacher. Christ, I am sure, wants football, baseball, and track-team men in an age when theological expositions, however deep and learned, when orthodoxy, conventionality, or even correct vestments and ritual, have so little attraction for the young men who will be leaders tomorrow.

Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell

War is fear cloaked in courage.

William Westmoreland

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Aldous Huxley

That government is best which governs least. - from Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

Johnson

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Iris Murdoch

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Goldstein S. Truism