All my life, Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest, freest' country in the world. By most measurements, it was long a contender for that honor, and - among the larger countries, if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom - probably did deserve to be so described.

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

Jeffrey Archer

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

John McLaughlin

In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.

Joe Montana

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

George Bernard Shaw

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

Cornelia Funke

Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.

Walter Bagehot

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Anne Baxter

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought and then give it form.

Francois Delsarte

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

Heinrich Heine

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Marcus Aurelius

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

Maynard James Keenan