Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.

If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue.

SunTzu, The Art of War

To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.

Alastair Campbell

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

Giovanni Falcone

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

Voltaire

Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.

C.S. Lewis

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

Tommy Lee Jones

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.

Phyllis Diller

For what is it to die, but to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?

Kahlil Gibran

However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

Ted Allen

Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Soren Kierkegaard

Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.

J.K. Rowling

I was a big fan of 'The Smurfs' growing up, even though by default - my mom used to force me to watch because she was a 'Smurfs' fan.

Jayma Mays