The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

Thomas Alva Edison

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist

Oscar Wilde

The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.

Bob Schieffer

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

Sir William Temple

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.

Billy Corgan

I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.

James McGreevey

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

Harvey S. Firestone

Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.

Daisaku Ikeda

I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.

Sarah McLachlan

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All concord's born of contraries.

Ben Jonson

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

James Thurber