I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language -- religion -- government -- blood -- identity in these makes men of one country.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.

Mehmet Oz

Making a life comes before making a living.

Source Unknown

I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

Oscar Wilde

There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.

Marguerite Moreau

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Pierre Corneille

The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.

Robyn Davidson

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Johann von Goethe

These young Americans sent a message to terrorists everywhere ... You can run but you can't hide. (On US pilots who captured four terrorists)

Ronald Reagan

The science is clear that there is an increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. What is not clear from the science is how much of that increase is caused by human activity and what also is not clear is what impact those increases have on the climatic cycle.

Jim Sensenbrenner

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.

Blaise Pascal

We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice.

Lawrence Eagleburger