You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Richard Milhous Nixon

I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.

Magnus Carlsen

Love of the streets is the love out of which I see deeply I love God, how near I come to the truth.

William Saroyan

The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?

Hugh Mackay

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general in particular in the field of human intelligence.

Paul Bremer

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

The finest fury is the most controlled.

Christopher Hitchens

What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That's our job. I always say we have to give most of the people what they want most of the time. That's what they expect from us.

William Paley

We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.

Paul Robeson

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.

G. M. Trevelyan

The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship.

Leighton Meester