Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.

Kelly Gallagher

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Nora Ephron

Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.

Adam Schiff

In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.

Ted Allen

I love being in a band.

Jewel Kilcher

Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

Samuel Johnson

Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?

Muhammad Ali

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

William Ellery Channing

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

Stephen Covey

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.

Matthew Arnold

Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.

Jane Fonda

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

Mason Cooley