There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

Haruki Murakami

The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.

Sara Blakely

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Jacob Bronowski

Also unfortunately, Congress is far too busy asking if baseball players are really as strong as they seem and trying to choke bankers with wads of cash to grant more funds to such trifling matters as the avoidance of space bullets, so they won't give NASA the money

Robert Brockway

There is no time frame on living life, only the frame we place about ourselves to hinder our lives from living to its fullest.

Najeev Raj Nadarajah

The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

Ted Nugent

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Joan Gilbertson

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

A. A. Milne

So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly.

Fred Thompson

At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.

Jeffrey Kluger

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Mary Daly

We are always the same age inside.

Gertrude Stein