Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

Jessica Savitch

America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.

Archibald MacLeish

All glory comes from daring to begin.

Eugene F. Ware

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

John Updike

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

Plato

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Bertrand Russell

Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. But generally we are better at wielding the handbag than the bayonet.

Margaret Thatcher

No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.

Publilius Syrus

The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.

Daniel Craig

Singing when no one else is around is always good. I especially like belters. Good, loud singing is probably better medicine than half the stuff they sell in pill bottles, and it's cheaper, too. I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feel of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.

Erin McKean

I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

Anna Deavere Smith