I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

St Vincent De Paul

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

Pearl Buck

I love to go shopping. I love to freak out salespeople. They ask me if they can help me, and I say, Have you got anything I'd like? Then they ask me what size I need, and I say, Extra medium.

Steven Wright

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Greek Proverb

For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou has tried us, as silver is tried. Psalms 66:10

Bible

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Plato

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Andre Breton

If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science, we'd all think he'd gone 'round the bend. We don't need to do that sort of thing anymore, we'd say. We have better, kinder ways.

Ingrid Newkirk

In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

Chinua Achebe

I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways.

Mike Rogers

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

Vladimir Nabokov