Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.

If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.

Judy Woodruff

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

C.S. Lewis

We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

Maurice de Vlaminck

There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

Samuel Johnson

There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.

John Edwards

It is one of those stories that you just want to keep going and going - even after the last page has been reached. Kristie Leigh Maguire

Vicki M. Taylor

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.

John Charles Polanyi

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

Kristin Hersh

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

Arnold Palmer

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

Roland Barthes

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Virginia Woolf