Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

Warren Buffett

If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

Yakov Smirnoff

Assurance is two-thirds of success.

Scottish Proverb

The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.

David Edwards

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

George Farquhar

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

Peter Bichsel

Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.

Mark Twain

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

Carl Hiaasen

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

Paulo Coelho

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

Oscar Wilde

Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer.

Terry Semel