There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.

Jim Fowler

America is not like a blanket: one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.

Jesse Jackson

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

Mclandburgh Wilson

I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

Albert Einstein

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Mark Strand

It was expected, however, that [Erasmus] should make some reply and give some definition. But instead, by availing himself of a rhetorical transition, he drags us who knew nothing of rhetoric away with him, as if the matter at issue here were of no moment, but simply a lot of quibbling, and dashes bravely out of the crowded court, crowned with ivy and laurel.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.

Alton Brown

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.

Orson Scott Card

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in!

H.R. Haldeman

Cosmic Ordering is an ever full piggy bank.

Stephen Richards

Winny would spend all of his time practicing limbo. He gotpretty good. He could go under a rug.

Steven Wright