My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.

Military glory --the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.

Abraham Lincoln

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.

Laurie Halse Anderson

My wife has cut me down to once a month, I'm lucky I know two guys she cut off completely

Rodney Dangerfield

Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.

Thornton Wilder

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying b-----d. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

Harry S. Truman

I am a peace supporting Jew.

Alan Dershowitz

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

Howard Nemerov

I wake up in the morning and I see that flower, with the dew on its petals, and at the way it's folding out, and it makes me happy, she said. It's important to focus on the things in the here and now, I think. In a month, the flower will be shriveled and you will miss its beauty if you don't make the effort to do it now. Your life, eventually, is the same way.

Dan Buettner

No matter how good you get you can always get better and that's the exciting part.

Tiger Woods

The community of living is the carriage of the Lord.

Proverb

Give us a religion that will help us to live -- we can die without assistance.

Elbert Hubbard