Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

Carl Sandburg

America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.

Sarah Palin

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

Danielle Steel

I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.

Nigel Lythgoe

The true art of memory, is the art of attention

Samuel Johnson

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

Depression isn't a bad word...but it can destroy. We must have hope we can save many...We must keep the faith that we can try to help all!

Timothy Pina

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

George Gershwin

Whether one agrees or not with Mr. Taylor (or the other climatologists whose voices are being stifled), this is an inappropriate politicalization of climate science to promote a particular view.

Roger A. Pielke

Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals.

John Steinbeck

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

Andy Roddick

The question of common sense is what is it good for? A question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

James Russell Lowell